Alana Woods, LCSW
Therapist in Florida
Alana Woods is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Florida.
- License SW23229 · Florida Expires March 2027
- NPI 1295409316 · national registry
- Experience and languages 5+ years in practice English
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About Alana
Alana Woods is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Florida. She offers a calm, straightforward approach for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, grief, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, mood disorders, and career or self-esteem struggles. Alana keeps sessions grounded and practical so people can use what they learn right away.
Alana centers work on the client’s needs and strengths. She focuses on clear communication, collaboration, and building a trusting connection.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and direct, with room for humor when it helps ease tension. She believes people already have strengths inside them and helps make those more visible. Her practice combines several well-known approaches.
She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and emotion-regulation skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense feelings. She also uses the Gottman Method to support people working on relational patterns and Attachment-Based Therapy to address early connection wounds. Alana has five years of clinical experience and holds the LCSW credential, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
She has worked with individuals across many concerns including trauma, attachment issues, substance use, parenting stress, ADHD, and grief. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. People who begin with Alana complete a short questionnaire and then schedule sessions through the site.
She aims for practical steps, compassionate listening, and clear goals to help people move forward from where they are now.
Credentials
- LCSW (Florida)
- License SW23229 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1295409316 · national provider identifier
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Alana lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Alana names
- Gottman Method
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
These are the approaches Alana names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
Online support
How therapy approaches translate online
Alana uses the Gottman Method to help people recognize and change relationship patterns through clear communication exercises and skills for managing conflict. Gottman-informed work focuses on practical steps couples or partners can practice between sessions to improve interactions.She also draws from Attachment-Based Therapy, which looks at how early connections shape current emotional responses and relationship expectations. That approach helps people understand core needs and how to build healthier emotional bonds. Client-Centered Therapy is another part of her practice and centers the person’s perspective, using empathic listening to help clients find their own solutions and goals.
She treats finding the right approach as a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods that fit the person’s situation and adjust as needed over time.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill demonstrations, phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth, and text or chat options support brief updates or between-session coaching. These formats help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep progress moving even when in-person meetings aren’t possible.
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Frequently asked
What concerns does this therapist support?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, parenting, addictions, grief, mood disorders, ADHD, and related concerns such as self-esteem and communication problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
The approach is collaborative, straightforward, and warm. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical skills, and building on the client’s existing strengths.
What experience does she bring?
She has five years of clinical work and experience addressing trauma, attachment issues, substance use, parenting stress, and improving self-esteem and relational patterns.
What are her credentials and location?
She holds the LCSW credential (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) and practices in Florida.
Which languages are supported and can international clients be seen?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she offer?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the client’s needs.
How does pricing and payment work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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