Meet Allison
You Don't Need
Someone to Go Easy
on You.
And I won't nod sympathetically while you describe your week. There's a better use of your time than that.
Meet Allison
And I won't nod sympathetically while you describe your week. There's a better use of your time than that.
My background
I've been in private practice for 21 years. Alongside it, I've founded multiple businesses, at one point owning four at once. I know what it is to perform at a high level while privately managing more than anyone around me fully understood.
Over-functioning is my default setting. Not was. Is. I manage it actively, and I know exactly what it costs when you don't.
I'm a feminist therapist, and that shapes how I work. I understand the system you're navigating and I'm not going to gaslight you about it. I'm also not going to let you off the hook because life is unfair.
You need someone who can hold both of those things at once. The injustice is real and you are the only variable in your life you can actually change. My job is to help you become as responsible for yourself as you've always been for everyone else — not as a concept, but as something you actually do.
Why attorneys specifically
Some of my closest friends are attorneys. And over the years, my attorney clients have made some of the most substantial changes I've seen in 21 years of practice. I think I know why.
Attorneys tend to be analytical, pragmatic, and intelligent. They're insightful — not just professionally but about themselves. They often know exactly what's happening. They know they're not asking for what they need. They can see the block clearly and identify that their fear is probably unfounded. What they haven't had is someone to sit with them in the gap between knowing that and actually doing something about it.
They're also more sensitive than almost anyone in their lives realizes. That sensitivity gets shoved down early and kept there, because the job rewards a particular kind of armor. But it's still there. And in my experience, it's exactly what makes the work possible.
That combination — the analytical mind, the buried sensitivity, the capacity for real insight — is what I find most compelling to work with. When it's pointed in the right direction, change doesn't just happen. It sticks.
The person behind the practice
I'm also a mom to two kids, a daughter to aging parents, a wife to a partner I genuinely want to spend time with, a boss, THE person for a very energetic and clingy dog, someone who values her friendships deeply, and someone who has somehow figured out how to prioritize her health in the middle of all of it.
I'm not telling you this to impress you. I'm telling you because I'm not describing your life from a distance. I'm living a version of it.
How I work
I work with very smart women. Women who are tired of therapists who can't keep up with them, who offer worksheets or talk about talking about the issue. I have a reliable radar for when someone is being articulate about why they're stuck instead of actually moving. I'm not going to let you talk around it. I'll name it, we'll probably laugh about it, and then we'll get to what's actually in the way.
You'll be challenged here. You'll also be heard in a way that might surprise you.
You don't have to manage how you come across. Not in this room.
You've advocated for everyone else long enough.
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