Allison Metz, LPCC

Allison Metz is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 17 years of experience supporting people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. She helps clients who are facing parenting challenges, relationship or family conflict, mood concerns, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Allison writes plainly and meets people where they are to work on practical steps forward.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) alongside mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. Sessions focus on identifying patterns of thought and behavior, building skills for emotional regulation, and setting small, manageable goals. Motivational interviewing is used when people need help finding the motivation to change difficult habits.

Allison earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in community counseling from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. Her background includes work in private practice, medical family health centers, community agencies, and residential treatment settings. This variety shaped a practical approach to everyday problems.

In sessions she offers straightforward tools for coping with panic, sleep disruption, parenting stress, feelings of emptiness or shame, and mood instability. She also supports people dealing with postpartum depression and issues tied to family of origin or blended family dynamics. Treatment is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

Allison conducts therapy in English and practices as an Ohio LPCC. She works with adults and adolescents across a range of life transitions, helping clients build skills they can use outside of sessions.

How Allison’s approaches translate to online work

Allison uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. CBT sessions often include homework, simple experiments, and step-by-step plans to reduce anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep problems. She also draws from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. DBT offers concrete skills for managing intense feelings, improving communication, and reducing impulsive behaviors.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Allison will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and daily routines. Together they decide whether CBT, DBT, mindfulness practices, or a solution-focused emphasis will be most useful, and she adjusts the plan as progress is tracked.

Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full sessions with face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a quieter audio check-in is easier. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between meetings, recap progress, or have shorter skill-building conversations without a scheduled call.