Allison Kemble, LCSW

Allison Kemble is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Missouri who brings a practical and compassionate approach to counseling. She earned her master’s degree in clinical social work from the University of Missouri Columbia in 2012 and has built a practice focused on helping people navigate grief, parenting challenges, career transitions, and a wide range of stressors including anxiety, depression, and trauma. As an LCSW, she is trained to provide clinical assessment and therapeutic intervention for individuals and families.

Her early work began in career counseling, where she supported clients receiving government assistance by coordinating case management services to address barriers such as housing, childcare, and food security while helping clients move toward employment. She later transitioned into medical social work within a major health system, specializing in grief counseling, crisis intervention, and short-term support for patients and families facing complex or chronic medical conditions. That experience included assisting people with disease management, medication adherence, coping with new or chronic diagnoses, situational depression, PTSD, and trauma related to serious medical events.

Allison also has experience supporting clients through end-of-life transitions and hospice care, and she has worked with individuals affected by suicidal ideation. Her clinical style is client-centered and solution-focused, drawing on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness therapy, motivational interviewing, and brief solution-focused techniques. She emphasizes meeting each person where they are, collaborating to set goals, and offering practical tools and strategies to build coping skills, resilience, and progress at a comfortable pace.

Allison values building a trusting therapeutic relationship and tailors communication to each client’s needs, offering flexibility in how people stay connected. Her practice includes work with diverse concerns such as addictions, family dynamics, eating issues, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and caregiving stress, as well as supporting those affected by adoption, foster care, cancer, chronic pain, and disability.