Alanna Kardon-Alkalay, LCSW

Alanna Kardon-Alkalay is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New York with 15 years of experience across agencies, public schools, and private practice. She has supported children and families in preventive services, worked in an adult mental health day program, and provided contracted support within a New York public school system. In private practice she has worked primarily with adults seeking help for depression, anxiety, ADHD, eating concerns, relationship and parenting challenges, and other life transitions. She has also worked with people who have experienced post-traumatic stress, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect.

Alanna earned her master’s degree at Fordham University in Tarrytown, NY, where she received clinical training in individual counseling and family systems. She frequently integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, while also drawing on humanistic and integrative methods when appropriate. She values each person’s narrative and supports clients in making meaning from their experiences.

Treatment plans are individualized and developed collaboratively, with adjustments as needs change over time. Alanna emphasizes trust, professional ethics, dignity, and integrity in the therapeutic relationship and uses mindfulness practices to help clients connect with the present and build on their existing strengths.