Alana Jones

Alana Jones is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California with ten years of clinical experience. She earned a Master of Science in Counseling with a focus on Marriage, Family, and Child Therapy from the University of Phoenix in 2014 and has worked across a wide range of settings and populations.

Her professional background includes work with early childhood clients, adolescents and teenagers, adults, couples, and whole family systems. She has experience supporting people who have had involvement with multiple systems such as mental health organizations, non-public schools, social services and foster care, and juvenile justice or probation.

Alana supports clients presenting with concerns including depression, stress, anxiety, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, PTSD, and ADHD, and she also addresses addictions, grief, anger management, self-esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes. Her clinical services have included individual, group, family, and dyadic therapy, as well as crisis stabilization, intensive care coordination, case management, intensive home-based support services, and individual rehabilitation services.

Her therapeutic approach is client-centered and collaborative, helping clients take an active role in guiding their own progress. She draws on an eclectic set of methods to fit each person or family, incorporating techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, play therapy, solution-focused therapy, and trauma-focused therapy. Above all, she aims to highlight strengths, foster hope, and build a trusting therapeutic alliance to support clients in making decisions that improve their quality of life.

She practices as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California; her license is CA LMFT 126476.