About Alana
Alana Kaplan is an AASW counsellor with 16 years of professional experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or life changes. Her manner is respectful and compassionate, and she focuses on practical steps that fit each person’s life.
Alana shapes sessions around what matters most to the individual. She listens first, then suggests simple strategies to reduce distress and build confidence. Sessions can include talking, movement awareness, and exercises that help people notice how the body and mind react to stress.
Background and approach
Her work draws on somatic ideas alongside approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based techniques and cognitive behavioural methods. That mix supports people who struggle with panic, mood difficulties, social anxiety or low self-worth. It also helps those dealing with parenting strain, caregiver stress, relationship communication problems and separation.
Alana pays attention to both feelings and everyday behaviour. She helps people set small, achievable goals and practices to try between sessions. The aim is calmer responses, clearer priorities and more reliable coping skills.
Sessions are offered in English and are adapted to each person’s pace. Alana explains options clearly and helps clients choose approaches that match their goals. Taking the first step can feel hard; she aims to make the process straightforward and supportive.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Alana uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. ACT focuses on values and small, meaningful actions that move life in a chosen direction. She also draws on somatic-informed work which pays attention to bodily signals like tension, breath and posture to reduce anxiety and reactivity. That can help with panic attacks, stress and the physical side of grief.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alana will talk with each person about goals, preferences and how they respond to different methods. Together they decide which blend of techniques feels most helpful and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions suit people on the move, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins and in-the-moment coaching. These options make it easier to keep therapy regular while fitting it around family, work and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English