Teletherapy for New Jersey

With over fifteen years of experience, I've helped guide many people towards greater happiness and empowerment. And a "Healthgrades Patient Favorite", I'm ready and excited to help you on your healing journey. My approach is caring, holistic, knowledgeable, motivational, and direct. Let's find out what's underneath your issues to get you back to wholeness. I see clients who are 21 and older and love to do Couples /Family Counseling. Please check out my reviews on Healthgrades to see if I'd be a good fit for you. https://www.healthgrades.com/providers/alison-maxfield-58boz

Our YOUTH today need positive adult mentors! With a passion to serve children and adolescents, I help clients move from reaction to conscious response, anger to compassion and anxiety to peace. Specializing in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, I have taught and mentored students in Public and International Schools for over 25 years. I hold a Masters in Teaching, BA in Psychology, NJ Teachers License and a Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher Certification. Currently, I serve in schools implementing my Mindfulness Curriculum and am a Youth Mindset Mentor. My mission is to self empower our youth with tools to self regulate and self heal.

I am committed to providing a safe and hope-filled space for my clients to explore their experiences and move towards healing and transformation. I provide compassionate care in a non-judgmental environment and consider myself open minded and informed. Being a yoga instructor, I bring a rich understanding of the body-mind-spirit connection to my practice. I have experience with individuals, families & couples facing a variety of issues. Issues include women's issues, struggles with self-esteem, confidence, empowerment, substance abuse, codependency, anxiety, stress, depression, grief & loss, sexual abuse, and sexual identity.

Are you lost in your emotions and feel like life is “unraveling”? One of the bravest things you can do is seek help and begin to understand your own story. Early life experiences shape how we see ourselves and the world around us that can develop into negative beliefs about who we are. Over time old beliefs and patterns that once helped protect us are no longer useful and can cause disruption in all areas of life. Life is too short to surrender to bad relationships, let trauma control us or feel anxious/depressed/angry all the time. You deserve to live a life that makes you excited to wake up every morning.

As a holistic psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience, I integrate left & right brain techniques to promote healing and well-being. I'm a registered yoga teacher, somatic and mindfulness practitioner, reiki healer, and artist. I'm passionate about expressive arts and the mind-body-spirit connection to help clients cultivate self-awareness, resilience, and inner joy. Thru yoga therapy, creative expression, and relaxation techniques, clients explore different aspects of themselves, fostering emotional healing and self esteem building. I also lead a structured virtual DBT group teaching emotion regulation skills to supplement.

Are you tired of feeling sluggish, anxious, unfulfilled, or insecure? Are you interested in learning more about mind-body connections, or in more deeply exploring spiritual concepts? Grounded in traditional evidence based therapy modalities learned while acquiring my LCSW, my additional education and certification in complementary and alternative medicine as well as spiritual psychology also allows us to explore additional creative and holistic methods to achieving overall wellness. My approach is to “meet clients where they are” with an initial goal of stabilization and helping the client to feel safety within themselves.

Are you looking to learn more about the grieving process? Or would you like help in navigating the magnitude of emotions? Perhaps you’re looking to connect with others who might get what you’re experiencing – helping you to feel less alone? Whether it's working through strong and/or unfamiliar emotions, wanting to connect with others or just not wanting to do this grief thing alone, Daylight Grief can help. We work with those who have experienced sudden, traumatic and expected losses.

Soul loss is what we go through when our early wounds and traumas restrict our energy and impede our ability to live freely and joyfully. I can help you retrieve your lost energy and rewire old patterns, so you can more fully embody who you were meant to be. Pain is often an invitation to learn more about our feelings so we can evolve and expand. I use a mind-body approach (somatic experiencing/ gestalt) with a relational lens (psychodynamic/ attachment/ Jungian) and energy healing. If you feel stuck after years of talk therapy, I can help. I see children, adolescents, adults, couples & families online only at the moment.

Trauma experienced in childhood influences our beliefs and behaviors, causing emotional distress, mental health challenges, and difficulty in intimate relationships. Mindfulness and somatic healing methods can help release emotions trapped in the body and help individuals better manage their emotional states while fostering greater self-compassion and a healthier connection with Self and others.

Buddhism teaches us that change is a fundamental truth of the healing process. I love to support people negotiating change and life transitions. Change is undoubtedly hard, and anxiety, depression and grief often accompany it. Fortunately, so does new growth. I specialize in attachment and relationships and believe they are the foundation of our ability to heal. I support people through separation and divorce, perinatal and postpartum adjustment, parenting and co-parenting, family conflict, grief and loss, trauma and racial identity development. As we heal our relationship with self, we show up more fully in relationship with others