Alison Silcox , LPC

Alison Silcox is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 13 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life feel more manageable. Alison aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where someone can talk through what feels overwhelming.

She works with people facing life changes, burnout, and compassion fatigue. Alison also helps with issues like attachment or abandonment worries, body image concerns, and the strain of caregiving. She offers support for chronic pain, illness, and disability where emotional coping is needed.

Alison blends several approaches to match each person's needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and create doable behavior changes. Mindfulness techniques are used to slow down difficult moments and build awareness. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools help set short-term goals and keep progress moving.

Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Alison listens first, then works with the person to pick exercises and steps they can try between meetings. She explains ideas in plain language and checks in about what is and isn’t working.

Based in Colorado, Alison offers support for a wide range of concerns including midlife transitions, relationship communication problems, financial stress, and questions about life purpose. Her approach emphasizes small, practical changes that add up over time.

Approaches that translate to online care

Alison often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people recognize unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT is practical and problem-focused, which can work well in short, goal-oriented online sessions.

She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that calm the body and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness exercises can be practiced between meetings and reviewed during video or phone sessions. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone needs help identifying what matters most and building internal motivation for change, which pairs well with homework and check-ins over messaging.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person’s goals, try methods that fit those priorities, and adjust over time based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to keep using.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and needs. Video calls let the therapist observe gestures and facial expressions, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or tracking homework between meetings.