Allison holds an advanced master’s degree from Florida Atlantic University and has extensive experience assisting individuals and families facing substance use disorders and mental health issues. She has worked with patients in both inpatient and outpatient mental health facilities and substance treatment centers, providing individual, family, and group therapy. Allison has worked with a wide range of clients, from those struggling to meet their basic needs to CEOs, celebrities, and professional athletes. She is trained in EMDR, CBT, and Bowen Family Systems theory. Allison employs a strength-based approach to empower individuals to become the best version of themselves. She uses experiential therapy in her work, including equine therapy to help others heal.

Allison believes in the power of experiential therapy to heal the whole person and is currently studying and participating in new research for surf therapy, which she believes is a much-needed new intervention. She is passionate about advocating for addiction and mental health issues on both a local and national level.