Alison Mace , LMSW

Alison Mace is an LMSW (Licensed Master Social Worker) practicing in Michigan with five years of experience supporting adults in a range of mental health settings. She frames therapy as a collaborative process, working alongside each person to explore how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors connect and influence daily life. Alison aims to provide a nonjudgmental space where clients feel heard, validated, and empowered to set meaningful goals and take manageable steps toward them.

Her approach blends compassionate, authentic dialogue with practical skill-building, and she often brings a touch of humor to ease difficult conversations. Alison has experience addressing stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, and issues related to identity and sexuality, including LGBT concerns. She also works with family dynamics, eating and body image struggles, self-esteem, bipolar and mood disorders, obsessions and compulsions, panic, phobias, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and other complex emotional challenges.

In sessions she incorporates evidence-informed methods to help clients clarify values, improve communication, and develop coping strategies tailored to their lives. Alison’s intention is to support individuals in building insight, strengthening resilience, and moving toward outcomes that matter to them.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Alison often integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy into her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and adjusting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression and to build more effective coping strategies. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be especially helpful for intense emotions, relationship struggles, and problems with impulsivity.

She may also draw on Motivational Interviewing to help clients clarify their values and strengthen motivation for change when facing ambivalence. Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process - Alison collaborates with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and to tailor interventions that fit their life and pace.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility by allowing sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to access licensed professionals from home, accommodate different schedules, and continue consistent care when life circumstances change.