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Ali Kanan, LPCC, has worked in the mental health field for nearly a decade, with experiences in community mental health, outpatient therapy, home-based services, university teaching, performance consulting with athletes and musicians, and community outreach. He provides individual therapy for adolescents ages 16+ and adults. Ali support client’s struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, shame, identity, relationship dissatisfaction, burnout, life transitions, and existential concerns.
Ali’s approach is developmental, relational, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and grounded in curiosity, compassion, and collaboration. He believes therapy is most effective when clients feel safe enough to show up as their flawesome selves (flawed yet awesome) selves. People need not be “fixed or rescued” but rather witnessed, encouraged, cared for, and respected with all of their unique history, conditioning, stories, and reactivity they carry moment-to-moment. His personal style is warm, reflective, and flexible. He is also known to be direct and intentional in challenging his clients to reflect on all the ways they unwittingly participate in maintaining or transforming their own suffering. He trusts in each person’s inner capacity for insight, healing, and skillfulness, and resolves to help clients feel safe and resourced enough to risk reconnecting with the disconnected, vulnerable parts of themselves. His hope is to help clients connect with a bigger picture: to cultivate greater self-understanding, emotional flexibility, self-kindness, and a newer, more empowering and authentic relationship with themselves, others, and the world.
His work is informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness, Buddhist psychology, and sensorimotor psychotherapy, which are foundational to his approach to therapy and the way he relates with each person. That said, he is less focused on subscribing to a model and more committed to drawing from these approaches in client-centered ways that respects each person’s needs, circumstances, values, limitations, and lived experience.
Outside of therapy, Ali enjoys spending time with family and friends, cooking on his Blackstone, golfing, watching sports, lifting weights, taking silent retreats, and learning new things. These practices help him stay grounded and balanced and reflect the presence, creativity, and discernment he works to model in both life and therapy.
In therapy, every part of you is welcome. You were made to take up space with your light in whatever way feels truest to you. Reach out whenever you feel ready—I’m here to support you.
