Alaina Bigger, LISW, LCSW

Licensed in California · 14 years in practice

Alaina Bigger is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship and family concerns.

License and registration

LCSW, California: LCSW84401 · expires July 2026
LISW, Ohio: I.2002204 · expires September 2026
NPI: 1821234196 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 14
Languages: English

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About Alaina

Alaina Bigger is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship and family concerns. She also supports those facing parenting strain, anger, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, and career or life transitions. She is based in California and brings 14 years of clinical experience to her work as an LCSW.

Her approach is practical and straightforward. Sessions focus on what feels most urgent for each person.

Background and approach

Conversations look at thoughts, patterns, and everyday choices so clients can find clearer ways to cope. She uses methods that help people change unhelpful thinking and notice how past relationships affect current behavior. Alaina pays attention to family dynamics and adoption or foster care challenges when those subjects come up.

She also addresses blended family issues, communication problems, divorce and separation, and other family-related stressors. Work on these topics may include problem solving, boundary setting, and new ways to talk with others. She draws on experience with mood disorders, seasonal affective disorder, social anxiety, impulsivity, and self-harm concerns while helping people build safety plans and coping skills.

Grief and loss work centers on honoring what’s been lost while finding practical steps forward. Career and life-change concerns are approached with goal-setting and realistic action plans. Alaina believes clients bring important knowledge about their lives and that therapy is a shared process.

She aims to make sessions a place to try new responses and build steady habits that reduce stress over time.

Focus areas and approaches

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Online support

Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life

Alaina commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques that help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and building practical coping skills for daily life.

She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to help people understand how past relationships shape current patterns. That work can bring clearer awareness of repeated reactions and open up new ways of relating to others.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client decide together which methods to try based on goals, needs, and what feels most comfortable. Approaches can be adjusted over time as progress or challenges become clearer.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when that helps, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, ongoing coaching between sessions, or when writing feels like the clearest way to communicate. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, parenting, and busy days while still working with a licensed professional.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Alaina work with?

She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and family conflicts, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and career or life transitions.

How would you describe her therapy style?

Her style is practical and collaborative, focusing on immediate problems, thought patterns, and everyday choices. Sessions aim to build skills people can use between meetings.

What experience does she bring?

Alaina has 14 years of clinical experience working in settings that address mood, anxiety, grief, trauma, family concerns, and related issues.

What are her credentials and location?

She holds LISW and LCSW credentials and practices on the Board of Behavioral Science for California as an LCSW; she is located in California.

Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?

Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How does pricing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What steps start the process?

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