Maximalist, book nerd, and the friend you’d want to manage your Tinder profile.
about allison staiger
I’m also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Equity-Centered Coach and Leader (which is probably what you’re here for, but stay for the sequins).
I’ve spent over 15 years walking alongside helpers, healers, and caregivers trying to survive and thrive in systems that were never built with them in mind, and that increasingly try to smother their vital care work.
But I’m more than just a polished bio and list of credentials and certifications (and student loan debt).
What I really bring to the table is a ruthless ability to name the thing under the thing, connect the dots, and help therapists find their voice (and their power) in places that have asked them to be neutral. Because that’s what drives a feminist, values-based business, not algorithms, ad- spend, or pressing on pain points.
And that’s what we use to build the DNA of your private practice.
Hi, I’m Allison (she/her).
my values
Integration
Creativity
Authenticity
Liberation
We weave them all together so your business, your values, and your day-to-day work aren’t constantly at odds. Because your practice should feel like an extension of your whole self, not a place where you fragment to survive.
My work invites you back to the creative spark and artistry in doing therapy, and builds practices that feel like an extension of your ideas.
My work is grounded in a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive framework that imagines beyond our current options, into what it would take for us all to be free, and is ever-evolving. That means disrupting supremacy culture in your business model, creating structures that actually support access without erasing you, and claiming your role in the larger cultural shifts we’re fighting for.
My work is grounded, relational, and deeply attuned to context.
Whether you’re clawing your way out of burnout, stepping into your therapist-leader era, or just trying to build a practice that doesn’t make you lose your damn mind, I’m here for it.
I specialize in working with therapists who are:
Who I Work With
- Visionary and values-driven: This is more than “build a business,” you’re here to build something that reflects your politics, your humanity, and your hope for what therapy could be.
- Burned out by the status quo: You’re tired of playing the game: the blank-slate therapist mask, the you versus the insurance and VC company battles, the pressure to be palatable, perfect, or apolitical.
- In a growth point: Whether you’re starting fresh, refining your established work, or evolving into the next stage, you want to make sure your systems, marketing, and culture are locked in and cohesive.
- Ready to claim their voice and leadership: You’re done waiting for permission. You want to build a practice that stands for something.
- Craving a deeper connection to their work: You’ve done the trainings and built the skills, but you still feel a disconnect. You want to connect with the spirit of your business and be a good steward of your brilliance.
My Lineage
I think it’s important to name who we have learned from and why that matters.
My most significant teachers have been:
Kelly Diels
Shawna Murray-Browne
Trudi LeBron
Cara Kovacs
All of whom hold therapy, business, and coaching to an ethical, intersectional, and equity-centered standard that is sorely lacking within much of those worlds.
I am also indebted to theories and thinkers from Black and intersectional feminism, abolitionism, anti-capitalism, Indigenous Wisdom, and decolonizing therapy.
From them, I carry an approach that is
The model of trauma-informed care that I have developed in my time as a trauma therapist extends to my coaching and business practices.
To me, being trauma-informed means establishing safety, consenting to trust, having a right relationship to power, normalizing rupture and repair, honoring the brilliance of adaptive behaviors, and being actively anti-oppressive.
Trauma-Informed
We not only name systems of oppression, we continue to sharpen our analyses in order to get better at seeing them when they try to hide.
I take responsibility for my own unlearning, accountability, and reparations, and expect the same of my clients.
Anti-Oppressive
The nature and spirit of therapy is radical and liberatory, but our institutions, systems, and structures have made it medicalized, patriarchal, and deficit-based.
To be a therapist is to be on the frontlines of human suffering in an incredibly intimate way, and we have an obligation and duty to stand for social justice and understand the politics that affect our clients on an individual level.
Political
Matriarchal values are those that center care, community, resourcefulness, intuition, relationships, and cycles of regeneration.
While so much of therapy and business has been co-opted by patriarchy and capitalism, we do not have to keep practicing or building our bodies of work in this way.
Matriarchal
My work is one small offering aiming to redistribute power, resources, and leadership in the systems we already know, while simultaneously working to build new paradigms.
It is not done alone, and it does not stop at my own personal gain.
Liberatory
When we work together, you can expect:
Humor and some swearing
Kind-hearted directness
A focus on what you need to maintain your humanity and the integrity of your work
To talk about how politics, white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism inform your work
A high-touch, personalized experience, with me all up in your work, helping you find the jewels within
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5 Tips for a Practice with Heart and Guts
This isn’t another “ideal client worksheet” or vague mindset fluff.
My free PDF helps you reconnect with your vision, your voice, and your values, and bring them into your practice where they belong.