About Alana
Alana Jones is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship or parenting challenges. She works with concerns like grief, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, addictions, and career or life changes. Her approach aims to make therapy practical and focused on everyday problems.
Alana draws on ten years of experience to shape individualized care. She centers sessions on each person's goals and choices, treating clients as partners in the work.
Background and approach
She looks for strengths and small wins to build momentum and hope. Her practice blends body-focused somatic work with attachment-based and client-centered methods. She also uses cognitive-behavioral and emotionally-focused ideas when those fit a person's needs.
The mix is adjusted over time as people make progress or new issues come up. Alana has worked in settings that include school systems, social services, foster care, and juvenile justice. That background informs her understanding of complex situations and how multiple systems can affect a person's life.
She has provided individual, group, family, and dyadic therapy as well as crisis stabilization and case coordination. In sessions she listens, validates, and helps clients weigh choices. She aims to be an ally in building coping skills and stronger connections.
Her style is collaborative, practical, and attuned to both emotions and how the body holds stress.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Alana integrates somatic work and attachment-based and client-centered ideas into online sessions. Somatic work focuses on how the body and sensations relate to stress and emotion, helping people notice and shift physical patterns that keep tension or anxiety. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape patterns and helps people create more supported ways of connecting. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, validation, and helping people set their own goals and pace for change.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that seem to fit. If something does not feel helpful, adjustments are made so the work stays relevant and user-friendly.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling and let people choose how they communicate when managing parenting, work, or other commitments. The variety of formats also supports ongoing work between sessions, making it easier to practice skills and stay connected to the therapeutic process.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English