Allison Palazzo , LCSW

Allison Palazzo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 19 years of practice in New York. She creates a calm, supportive space where people can talk through stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and life changes. Her style is practical and focused on making small, useful changes that add up over time.

Allison helps people handle relationship and intimacy-related issues, work through family conflict, and process grief. She also supports clients dealing with self-esteem struggles, body image concerns, and challenges related to LGBT identity. People with ADHD, compassion fatigue, or career-related stress may find her approach useful.

Sessions are geared toward clear goals and steps. Allison listens, reflects what she hears, and helps people sketch out manageable next steps. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide those steps and adapts them to each person’s situation.

Her background includes nearly two decades of direct clinical work across a range of concerns, including drug and alcohol problems, eating and food-related issues, abandonment worries, and blended family challenges. That experience informs how she frames practical strategies for coping and recovery.

Allison describes therapy as a collaborative process. She works with each person to identify priorities, test small changes, and build skills for handling setbacks. For someone facing divorce, infidelity, isolation, or difficulty communicating, she aims to offer clear direction and steady support.

Working with evidence-based approaches online

Allison uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes identifying clear, achievable goals and breaking them into small steps to reduce overwhelm; this helps with stress, anxiety, and motivation problems. Another approach centers on processing past losses and relationship wounds through guided conversation and coping strategies, which can be useful for grief, abandonment concerns, and intimacy issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Allison will collaborate with each person to see which methods feel most helpful. She checks in about goals and adjusts techniques based on progress and personal preferences so therapy stays relevant and usable.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break or use less bandwidth, and chat or text sessions let people check in between longer meetings or communicate without being on camera. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions and keep momentum even when life gets busy.