Alison Machabee, MFT-LP

“Together, let’s explore your history while grounding in the present; examine what is not working while highlighting what is; hold tender care for your struggles while remaining fiercely determined to change; and accept reality while planning for a better future. No matter your identity or your story, Alison will walk alongside you in the journey of healing and growth, not just talking but fully feeling, experiencing, and shaping change.”

Alison is a therapist, Pilates and yoga instructor, former modern dancer, writer, artist, partner, daughter, friend, granddaughter, sister, niece, cousin, teacher, learner, and global citizen. She brings her full, authentic self to the therapy room and considers herself a fellow traveler on her clients’ journeys – healing, growing, and learning alongside them. Alison values cultural humility and equality and strives to place these values at the forefront of her work.

Alison works from an attachment perspective – which, in simple terms, means that the idea that “we are hurt through relationships and we heal through relationships” is at the center of her work. She guides clients to explore how their histories have shaped their present lives, creating embodied and experiential insight that propels them through a non-linear process of change. The therapeutic relationship serves as a safe and supportive anchor along the way.

Alison implements a balance of holistic approaches (emotional, cognitive, behavioral, somatic, relational, and critical/societal) in order to engage many sides of suffering and address many modes of healing with empathy and care. She also believes that an individual, couple, or family’s unique interaction with systems of power, privilege, and oppression must be explored and acknowledged in order to facilitate change.

Alison self-identifies as a cisgender, heterosexual White woman.