
Howdy, I’m Alison (she/they)
I’m a psychotherapist in Kansas City, MO who specializes in supporting adults with a variety of adaptations to early, enduring trauma and profound grief. I am clinically licensed to work with individuals in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois.
I’m moved by the way people grow, like grass and wildflowers, despite habitat loss and dysfunction. Alike the prairie ecosystem, our deep root systems retain wisdom and nourishment for a generative life. I hold a deep reverence for my client’s life stories, and draw from a variety of clinical learning to support each person’s process.
I’ve worked as a psychotherapist in Chicago at community-based agencies and in private practice since 2017. My clinical work is informed by my own rambling path through creative practice, care work, and community organizing. Previously, I was a teaching artist and have been told I approach therapy with a poetic sensibility too.
I have recently, and lovingly, returned to the prairie lands that raised me within the unceded territory of many Indigenous Nations, including the Kiikaapoi, Kaw/Kansa, Osage, Shawnee, Nutachi, Oceti Sakowin, and Otoe-Missouria tribes.
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NARM Master Therapist (completion in 2025)
Certified NARM Therapist (November 2023)
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (Kansas - License # 04039)
Licensed Professional Counselor (Missouri - License # 2023035918)
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (Illinois - License # 180.014233)
Level 1 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Certificate (SP Institute - May 2021)
Illinois Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention Certificate (Chicago, IL - August 2019)
Illinois Domestic Violence Certificate (Chicago, IL - August 2017)
MA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Therapy & Counseling