Alli LaRue, LISW

Alli LaRue is a licensed independent social worker with 17 years of experience. She works with people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, parenting struggles, intimacy-related concerns, and mood challenges. Her approach centers on helping individuals recognize their strengths and take practical steps forward.

Alli starts by listening to each person’s story and asking what matters most right now. She treats clients as the expert on their life and coaches them toward clearer goals. Sessions focus on small, doable changes that build confidence over time.

Her work draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behavior. She also uses client-centered techniques to follow the client’s lead, emotionally-focused approaches to address relationship patterns, mindfulness to reduce reactivity, and motivational interviewing to support readiness for change.

Alli has supported people through adoption and foster care concerns, blended family challenges, divorce and separation, and parenting problems. She also has experience with mood disorders, panic attacks, social anxiety, pregnancy and childbirth issues, and recovery from sexual assault and abuse.

Sessions are offered in English and provided from Ohio. Alli aims to create a practical, steady plan so people can make progress between meetings. She encourages hopeful, steady steps rather than quick fixes.

How her approaches work online

Alli commonly uses cognitive behavioral strategies and client-centered work in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral ideas help identify patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety or low mood and replace them with practical behavior changes. Client-centered work means the therapist follows the client’s priorities and builds goals together rather than imposing a plan.

She also incorporates emotionally-focused ideas when relationships are a central concern. That approach looks at how interactions and hurt patterns maintain distress and helps people try new ways of connecting. Mindfulness techniques are used to reduce reactivity and improve day-to-day coping during moments of stress.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. Alli will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. If something isn’t helping, she adjusts the plan and experiments with a different focus together with the client.

Online work is offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for conversations that benefit from face-to-face interaction, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can serve for shorter check-ins or between-session support. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep consistent contact when in-person sessions are not practical.