Allison Petty , LPCC

Allison Petty is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and a Licensed Independent Chemical Dependency Counselor who brings over 10 years of clinical experience to her work. She earned undergraduate training at Kent State University and completed a Master of Arts at Ursuline College with a focus on Art Therapy and Counseling, blending formal training with a lifelong commitment to creative expression. Allison integrates art and creativity into therapeutic work, helping clients explore personalized, expressive pathways to address emotional and behavioral concerns.

Her approach is eclectic and client-centered, drawing on cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, psychodynamic concepts, solution-focused strategies, and elements of art therapy to tailor interventions to each person’s needs. Allison’s counseling style is warm, caring, and collaborative, and she regularly offers practical tools, resources, and techniques to support progress between sessions. She has worked across diverse settings including shelters, community outpatient programs, private practice, hospital outpatient and inpatient units, jails, and prisons.

Allison has supported people facing a broad range of challenges such as depression, anxiety, psychosis, trauma and abuse, substance use and addiction, hoarding, financial stress, relationship and family issues, LGBTQIA+ concerns, incarceration and reintegration, and grief. She emphasizes nonjudgmental, compassionate regard and treats clients as experts on their own lives while providing guidance and skills to help them reach more positive outcomes.