Alane Roath, LPC

Alane Roath is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who uses a collaborative, practical approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She aims to create an affirming space where clients feel heard and respected. Her style is down-to-earth and focused on real-life skills and choices.

With 23 years of experience, she helps people facing trauma and abuse, grief, addiction issues, and the strain that comes with caregiving. She also supports those wrestling with intimacy questions, self-esteem, mood disorders, and identity-related concerns. Her practice includes attention to attachment and abandonment hurts and the patterns that follow.

Alane integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Client-Centered approaches along with emotionally-focused and existential ideas. She uses these methods to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify values, and strengthen emotional connection in relationships. Sessions focus on concrete tools and gradual change rather than quick fixes.

Her work can include addressing obsessions and compulsions, codependency, communication breakdowns, and the ripple effects of life transitions like separation or major illness. She pays attention to how past family patterns show up in current choices and feelings. The goal is clearer direction, better coping, and more satisfying day-to-day life.

Alane offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. She works in English and practices in Missouri. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client’s calendar.

Practical therapeutic approaches for online care

Alane uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, obsessions, and mood challenges by teaching clear skills to test beliefs and try new actions.

She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when emotions are difficult. Client-Centered Therapy is part of her approach as well, offering a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client’s perspective guides the work.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and choose methods together. That collaborative planning helps shape a practical plan that fits the client’s life and needs.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video can allow more of a face-to-face feeling, phone calls work well when bandwidth is lower, and messaging or live chat can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These options let people fit therapy into workdays, caregiving routines, or periods of travel while keeping consistent momentum toward change.