About Allyson
Allyson Puzzo is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strains, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel manageable for someone taking the first step. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth, built around real goals and everyday changes.
She draws on 12 years of clinical work and a background in mental health counseling and forensic psychology. That experience includes individual and group settings, so she can adapt to different ways people prefer to work.
Background and approach
Sessions concentrate on improving how someone functions day to day and easing persistent symptoms like low mood, worry, or sleep problems. In the room she mixes practical strategies with careful listening. She uses methods that help people notice thoughts and feelings, test unhelpful assumptions, and try small experiments between sessions.
She also brings mindfulness into sessions to help with stress and emotional regulation. Allyson helps people sort through family and relationship concerns such as communication problems, blended family stress, infidelity, and caregiver strain. She also supports those coping with trauma, addictions, ADHD, and the emotional impact of major life changes.
Therapy sessions are offered in English and are based in New York. International clients are accepted, and Allyson works with a variety of scheduling formats to fit different needs. The initial focus is always on identifying what the person wants to change and making a simple, achievable plan.
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take small steps toward them, while learning to live alongside difficult thoughts and feelings rather than fight them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) centers on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors through short experiments and homework to reduce anxiety and depression. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the person sets the pace and direction of work.The therapist treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will work with the client to pick methods that match their goals, comfort level, and daily life. That may mean blending elements of ACT, CBT, and client-centered work so tools feel practical and relevant.
Online formats here include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let someone check in between meetings or use brief coaching-style support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English