Alyson Riedel is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15+ years working with a wide variety of populations and environments experiencing mental health challenges. She is an avid horsewoman with educational and practical experiences implementing equine assisted mental health. Focus has been on children, adolescents, families and most recently adults. She enjoys the diversity of experiences and helping to create resiliency and changes in the lives of each individual and family system. Her experience is geared toward behavioral challenges, ADHD, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and traumatic experiences.

She is trained in CBT, psycho-education, mindfulness, art and play techniques, motivational interviewing, trauma specific strategies, strength based, solution focused, and other common modalities. Her approach is to work to identify and utilize everyone’s unique strengths and skills. To build trust in the therapeutic relationship, she believes in being present and meeting each individual where they are to promote growth, healing and change. A healthy, safe, and trusting client-counselor relationship is a center piece to this work.