Therapist profile
Amie Allanson-Dundon, LPC
Licensed counselor - family and parenting concerns
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- Client-centered approach
- Cognitive behavioral tools
- Emotion-focused work
About Amie
Amie Allanson-Dundon is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania with 27 years of experience. She lists stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, relationship and family concerns, parenting, grief, and several other areas she addresses in her work.
She begins by listening and taking a person-centered approach. That means starting from where the client is and shaping sessions around their priorities. She combines different methods to suit the needs that come up, rather than using a single fixed approach.
In sessions she may use tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior traditions to help manage thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. She also draws on emotionally-focused and Jungian ideas when that helps a person understand relational patterns or deeper life themes. She adapts techniques to practical goals like sleep, eating, stress reduction, or coping with changes.
People contact her about parenting strain, blended family issues, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, fatherhood concerns, fertility and intimacy issues, first responder and veteran matters, and mood or anxiety disorders. She also lists ADHD, obsessive-compulsive patterns, panic, and multicultural concerns among the topics she addresses.
Her sessions emphasize collaborative planning. Clients work together with her to set short-term goals and decide on steps between meetings. The aim is to make therapy useful for everyday life, with concrete strategies and options to try outside sessions.
How sessions work
How her approaches inform online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a plan around what matters most to the person. It is useful when someone needs a place to sort priorities and set achievable steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is commonly used for anxiety, mood, and stress-related problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance, which can help with impulsive behaviors and strong relationship reactions. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then recommend techniques to try. That collaborative process means methods may shift over time based on what helps most in daily life. The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow brief check-ins when a full in-person session is hard to schedule. Some approaches, like CBT or DBT skills coaching, adapt well to shorter focused meetings, while deeper narrative or emotionally-focused work may take longer blocks of time. Discuss scheduling and format when arranging the first session to match therapy style with practical needs.Areas of focus
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Experience
27+ years
Listed in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of home and family concerns does she address?
She lists parenting, blended family issues, fatherhood issues, divorce and separation, caregiver stress, and relationship or intimacy-related problems as common concerns she helps people with.
How would she typically work with anxiety or stress?
She uses person-centered listening combined with approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical skills to manage worries and stress. Sessions focus on practical steps to try between meetings.
What is her professional background?
She has been practicing since 1995 and holds a masters degree in counseling and human relations from Villanova University, with 27 years of clinical experience.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, licensed in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and her practice is based in Pennsylvania.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session formats before booking, as the biography does not specify which formats are offered.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session to get started.
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