Alana Jones , LMFT

Alana Jones is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with over eight years of experience in clinical settings. She earned a Master of Science in Counseling with a focus on Marriage, Family, and Child Therapy from the University of Phoenix in 2014. Throughout her career she has provided services to early childhood clients, adolescents and teenagers, adults, couples, and families within a variety of family systems and service settings including mental health organizations, non-public school environments, social services and foster care, and juvenile justice programs.

Her work has addressed a broad range of concerns such as depression, stress, anxiety, family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, PTSD, and ADHD, as well as addictions, grief, anger, self-esteem, career issues, and coping with life changes. She has delivered individual, group, family, and dyadic therapy and has experience with crisis stabilization, intensive care coordination, case management, intensive home-based support services, and individual rehabilitation services.

Alana favors a client-centered approach that places the client in the driver’s seat while she tailors treatment using an eclectic set of methods. She draws on techniques including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), narrative therapy, play therapy, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused therapy to highlight strengths, instill hope, and support relational healing. She emphasizes building an allied relationship marked by listening, validation, and collaborative goal-setting to help clients make decisions aligned with their values and improve their overall quality of life.

As an LMFT, Alana has specialized training in working with individuals, couples, and families and brings a strengths-based, collaborative style to her therapeutic work.

Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Support

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a collaborative, non-directive stance in which the therapist offers empathy, acceptance, and support while the client guides the pace and focus of work. This approach is helpful for building self-awareness, strengthening decision-making, and restoring confidence across individual and relational concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior. In short, CBT provides practical tools to address anxiety, depression, stress, and difficulties with attention or coping, helping clients develop concrete strategies for day-to-day challenges.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that supports the processing of distressing memories and associated emotional responses. It is often used when trauma or post-traumatic stress symptoms are central to a person’s concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is decided collaboratively. Alana works with clients to assess their needs, goals, and preferences and then selects or blends methods that best support progress in therapy alongside licensed professionals and therapists when appropriate.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility by enabling sessions through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity of care across locations, and access consistent support while working toward personal and relational goals.