Allison L. Rees

I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who came to this work with nearly a decade of crisis intervention experience - the kind of work that teaches you crisis and chaos isn't always an emergency, but often a transformation that needs space to unfold. I earned my degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology, and I've spent my career specializing in the places where high-stakes work meets human breaking points: occupational trauma, moral injury, burnout, and the complex territory of identity and transition. I work particularly well with people in helping professions, first responders, veterans, healthcare workers, teachers, therapists, and LGBTQIA+ folks - anyone who's spent years being the capable one, the reliable one, the one who shows up no matter what. My training includes Brainspotting, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), and somatic approaches that work with how trauma actually lives in your body and nervous system, not just in your thoughts. Here's what matters: I get that asking for help doesn't come naturally when you're supposed to be the strong one. I understand that the hypervigilance that once kept you safe might now be keeping you isolated. And I know that sometimes the hardest part is figuring out who you are when you're not performing competence for everyone else. You don't have to translate your experience into therapy-speak with me, and you definitely don't have to pretend you're more okay than you are. I'll also give you a sense of how I work and what our sessions together might look like. If you're curious about specific approaches like Brainspotting or somatic work, we can talk about those. If you just want to see if we vibe, that's totally fine too. The first session is as much about you getting a feel for whether I'm the right fit as it is about me understanding how I can help. You don't need to come in with everything figured out or perfectly articulated. You don't need to have your trauma neatly packaged or know exactly what you want from therapy. Just show up as you are - tired, skeptical, hopeful, guarded, whatever. We'll figure out the rest together.