Alana Borden, LCSW

Alana Borden, LCSW, helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and family challenges. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. Her style is warm and collaborative so clients feel heard and respected.

Alana uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques to help people spot unhelpful patterns and build new coping skills. She listens to each person’s story and tailors work to what matters most to them. Sessions tend to focus on setting small goals, practicing new skills, and reviewing what works between meetings.

She also supports people dealing with attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver strain, communication problems, and relationship transitions such as divorce or separation. When trauma and post-traumatic stress are present, Alana helps clients break problems into manageable steps and develop safety and grounding strategies.

Her approach borrows from practical therapies to address mood disorders, self-esteem, guilt, shame, impulsivity, and isolation. People can expect guidance on building self-compassion, improving communication, and clarifying life purpose. Treatment moves at a pace chosen by the client.

Alana has four years of clinical experience and holds a Master of Social Work and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential. She practices in Missouri and conducts sessions in English. Prospective clients should confirm current session options before booking.

How Alana’s approaches translate to online care

Alana draws on practical, evidence-based techniques that help people change unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying thought patterns that feed anxiety or low mood and replacing them with more helpful behaviors and thinking. It often uses small homework steps to practice new skills between sessions.

Trauma-informed methods help people feel safer with their memories and reactions. That work includes grounding exercises, pacing sessions to manageable steps, and teaching strategies to reduce overwhelm after difficult experiences.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques when they seem useful, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients help decide what feels most effective for them over time.

If you are considering online therapy here, confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Many people find remote sessions helpful because they can fit appointments into a busy schedule, avoid travel time, and use shorter check-ins when needed. Online work can also make it easier to practice skills between meetings and to bring real-life situations into the conversation for discussion.