Alison Abrams

Alison is a patient, attentive, and process-oriented therapist. From a strengths-based perspective and using a variety of methods to support her clients, Alison will work with you to build and apply coping strategies to help you tolerate, minimize, and deal with your stressors in life. She will teach, model, and support you as you apply skills that will foster greater self-awareness, strengthen communication, nourish self-esteem, and expand your awareness of how to control troubling symptoms so that you can feel better, function better, and heal.

Prior to becoming a social worker and psychotherapist in 2015, Alison was a certified teacher of children and adolescents with special needs in NY and CT, with a focus on those who had moderate to severe learning disabilities. She learned from the inside out the many short and long-term social, emotional, and psychological implications and challenges not only for these children, but also for their siblings, parents, and extended families, and worked with them to develop purposeful skills to help navigate their daily lives, observe and interact with their environments, identify and communicate their needs effectively, develop better relationships both within and beyond the confines of family, problem-solve, build meaningful support systems, and to gain an overall stronger sense of self.

It was here that Alison decided to take her valuable life and professional experiences out of the classroom and into the mental health arena. She returned to New York University’s Silver School of Social Work, earning her MSW. Since then, she has worked with children, teens, and adults of all ages in a variety of mental health settings, including community clinics, psychiatric hospitals, assisted living communities, residential facilities, and schools, to help support them on their individual personal journeys.

Alison is currently offering virtual sessions with daytime and evening availability.