Alana Jones, LMFT

Alana Jones is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, grief, anger, addiction, and issues around self-esteem and career changes. She also supports those navigating adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, post-traumatic stress, and ADHD-related difficulties.

Alana draws on ten years of clinical experience and keeps the person at the center of the work. She listens first, looks for strengths, and works side by side with people to set practical goals. Sessions are collaborative and built around what matters most to each person.

Her approach blends plain-language tools with evidence-informed strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the methods she uses to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches to strengthen relationships and emotional understanding.

Alana has worked across a range of community settings and with people who have had contact with social services and foster care systems. That background informs how she tailors plans, offers coaching-style support, and helps people manage real-life stressors.

In sessions she aims to create steady progress through short, clear steps. She adjusts plans as people reach goals and as needs change. Her style is practical, warm, and focused on helping people make choices that improve daily life.

Therapeutic approaches for online work

Alana commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test small behavior changes that reduce distress. CBT is practical and useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related issues.

She also draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches to strengthen how people relate to themselves and to others. Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people build more secure ways of connecting. Client-centered work emphasizes empathy and listening so people can find their own solutions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging lets people fit sessions into busy lives. Video works well when visual connection matters, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to attend regularly and stay engaged with the work.