Allison Petty, LPCC

Allison Petty is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and a Licensed Independent Chemical Dependency Counselor with more than 10 years of clinical experience. She earned her undergraduate training at Kent State University and completed a Master of Arts at Ursuline College with a focus on art therapy and counseling, bringing a strong emphasis on creativity and personal expression to her work.

Art and creative processes are central to Allison's practice, and she collaborates with clients to develop individualized, expressive strategies that address their concerns. Her approach is eclectic, drawing on cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, psychodynamic ideas, client-centered methods, and solution-focused work to find what best helps each person.

Allison's counseling style is described as warm, caring, and collaborative, and she frequently shares practical resources, tools, and techniques to support progress. Her experience spans many settings, including shelters, community outpatient programs, private practice, inpatient and outpatient hospitals, jails, and prisons. She has worked with people facing depression, anxiety, psychosis, trauma and abuse, relationship and LGBTQIA+ concerns, substance use and addiction, hoarding, financial strain, and challenges related to incarceration and reintegration.

Allison emphasizes open, honest, compassionate, nonjudgmental regard and views clients as the experts on their own lives. Her role is to provide support, comfort, and tangible strategies to help clients pursue better outcomes.