

Headway connects Newark residents with UnitedHealthcare-covered mental health providers in neighborhoods like the North Ward, Downtown, and South Ward. With copays ranging from $0-$30 and over 2,282 providers available, you can start sessions within two weeks with flexible scheduling options.
“I’m a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who truly cares about helping people feel understood and supported. I am dedicated to providing compassionate, whole-person mental health care. My clinical background includes experience with anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, women’s mental health, and mood disorders. I hold advanced graduate training in psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, and medication management, and I am committed to creating a supportive environment where clients feel truly seen and heard. My practice blends evidence-based treatment with a holistic perspective, addressing emotional, cognitive, and lifestyle factors that impact mental well-being. For clients who desire it, I also incorporate gentle, faith-sensitive support while maintaining a safe and inclusive space for all. My goal is to help you understand your symptoms, build resilience, and move toward lasting healing and clarity.”
I am an incredibly empathetic therapist who's joy is to provide a safe space to my clients. I utilize a variety of counseling theories in order to provide services. I am engaging and inquisitive and enjoy invoking humor within the sessions when appropriate.
I am passionate about supporting people in finding healing and hope from all different walks of life. Many of my clients have started their healing journey feeling helpless in their parenting, swallowed by anxiety, bogged down by a fog of depression, out of control managing their ADHD, or keep hitting a dead end trying to repair their marriage or relationships.
I’m Allison, I am an LCSW and received my master's from NYU. I have 12 years of experience providing individual and group therapy addressing anxiety, depression, and trauma. I am here to help navigate phases of life, identify boundaries that may relieve stress, process/understand your emotions and thinking, and develop coping skills for a healthier lifestyle.
As a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP), my approach is centered on building a collaborative partnership with clients, actively listening to their needs and concerns to develop a tailored plan that empowers them to achieve their goals. My style is warm, supportive, and detailed assessment to reach a correct diagnosis in treating patients. .
I help ambitious adults who feel plateaued or stuck in their work, relationships, healing or personal growth. On the surface life may look solid, yet anxiety lingers, relationships feel strained, or old patterns keep showing up when they try to move forward in their work, relationships, or personal growth. You understand yourself intellectually, but the deeper patterns still feel outside your control. Often the coping strategies that once propelled you forward are now the very things holding you back. You may even know exactly what needs to change, yet still find yourself repeating the same reactions when pressure rises.



Headway makes it easy to get affordable in-network mental health care with United Healthcare — from finding the right therapist or psychiatrist, to understanding costs, to booking your first session.
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