About Alana
Alana Jones is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, and relationship struggles. She works with issues like addiction, grief, anger, self-esteem, career changes, ADHD, and LGBT concerns.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward and focused on practical steps a person can use each day. Alana favors a client-centered way of working that keeps the person in control of decisions.
She looks for strengths in each person and in their relationships, and she uses those strengths to build hope and momentum. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused while respecting each person’s pace.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. For trauma-related concerns she may use emotion-focused work and EMDR methods when appropriate.
Alana blends methods to fit each person’s needs rather than following one fixed model. Her background includes ten years in the field supporting people with a range of life stressors and system involvement.
Alana has experience offering individual and relational supports and has worked alongside social services and school settings. She brings practical tools, listening, and steady feedback to help people move forward.
Sessions are aimed at helping people make manageable changes. Alana focuses on clear goals, concrete coping strategies, and strengthening supportive relationships.
She invites people to explore next steps at a comfortable pace.
How attachment and CBT translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can be used to notice these patterns, practice new responses, and rebuild trust in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing simple behavior changes. It often uses homework between sessions to try new ways of thinking and acting, which works well across video or messaging.Emotion-focused work helps people name and process strong feelings so they become easier to sit with and manage. That approach can be used in sessions to build emotional awareness and to practice new ways of responding to tough moments. The therapist will work collaboratively to figure out which approaches fit best, based on goals, needs, and preferences. Finding the right mix is part of the process and may change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and worksheets, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, tracking progress, or getting support between longer sessions. These formats make it possible to keep consistent contact and adapt the pace and tools to everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English