Alanna Kardon-Alkalay, LCSW

Alanna Kardon-Alkalay is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in New York with 15 years of experience in clinical settings and private practice. She has worked in agencies, schools, and adult day programs. Her work focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship and parenting concerns, and trauma-related issues.

In practice she supports adults presenting with mood and anxiety disorders, eating concerns, grief, and substance-related problems. She also addresses family-related stress, caregiver strain, codependency, and communication or commitment problems. Her background includes preventive services with children and contracts supporting student needs in public schools, which shaped her approach to family systems and practical problem solving.

She holds a masters degree from Fordham University where she completed clinical training in individual counseling and family systems. In sessions she often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful patterns and try more effective ways of coping. She also draws on client-centered and psychodynamic ideas when those approaches help clarify meaning and relationships.

Alanna prefers to build treatment plans collaboratively. Plans are practical, time-limited when useful, and adjusted as circumstances change. She asks clients what matters to them and sets goals together, then checks progress and adapts steps as needed.

Mindfulness practices are used when clients find them helpful, from brief breathing exercises to noticing daily moments. The overall approach is straightforward: focus on workable steps, clarify relationship patterns, and strengthen existing strengths to manage life changes and ongoing stressors.

Therapeutic approaches for remote sessions