Alona Perlin
Practical, calm therapy for life’s hard moments
LCSW New York
- Experience
- 15 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English, Russian
About Alona
Alona Perlin is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, or life transitions. She offers a calm, down-to-earth presence and focuses on listening first so clients can talk without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and grounded, with a mix of feedback and tools to help people cope day to day. With 15 years of experience, Alona draws on several approaches to match each person’s needs.
She uses Gottman Method principles when relationship patterns are part of the concern and blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small steps forward. Attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral techniques are used to address how past experiences shape current patterns.
Alona works with a wide range of issues including stress, trauma and abuse, addictions, self-esteem, and communication problems. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, body image, and attachment concerns.
The work aims to help clients feel more grounded, understood, and able to manage what life brings. Sessions are offered in English and Russian for people located in New York.
Alona provides a steady, practical approach that moves at each person’s pace. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, focusing on what will make daily life a little easier.
In early sessions she asks about what brought someone to therapy, gathers background, and sets clear, manageable goals. From there she tailors tools and conversation so the work fits the person rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all plan.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Alona uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT often focuses on making room for hard feelings while moving toward meaningful action. She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early caregiving patterns affect current relationships and emotional reactions, helping clients recognize patterns and practice new ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alona collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, comfort level, and pace. She adjusts strategies as therapy progresses so the plan stays practical and relevant to what the client wants to achieve.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into daily life. Video lets people see nonverbal cues during longer conversations, phone can be used when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging can work for quick check-ins or shorter reflections. These options give flexibility for different schedules and communication preferences while keeping the focus on steady therapeutic progress.
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Experience
15+ years
Licensed in
New York, New Jersey
Languages
English, Russian