Empowerment & Transformation

Therapy from the Heart

Ali Roth, LMFT, MA

By Way of Introduction

Decades of Caring

I hail from a family of serial entrepreneurs dating back to my great-grandfather, grandfather, and father. My first enterprise was forming a kazoo band with some neighborhood kids. We traipsed around town, knocking on doors to promote our pay-to-play enterprise (the earliest form of busking); we made enough loot to retire and buy a whole lot of Bazooka bubble gum.

At home, my role was always as the mediator, resolving and reframing acrimony between and betwixt my brothers, myself, and our parents in an attempt to reconcile transgenerational conflict and complex family issues. This role came naturally to me as an insightful and probing young individual, insatiably curious about the world writ large and what made people tick.

A Judgement Free Zone

Empathy. Acceptance. Kindness.

After a career as a film and commercial casting director, online dating guru, film producer, and internet brand strategist, I revisited my original professional game plan to become a psychotherapist and open my own practice.

I moved to Vermont to attend Bennington College for two years then transferred to Washington University in St. Louis, where I double majored in psychology and drama, made dean’s list and graduated cum laude. For my MFA, I was accepted to the prestigious Professional Actor Training Program at University of Washington in Seattle, which is where I also launched my commercial & film casting company, Alison Roth Casting & Associates.

I attended Antioch University where I secured my Master of Clinical Psychology degree and continued on to my internship at the prestigious Maple Center of Beverly Hills, then becoming a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT.

I practice psychotherapy, which identifies and resolves old patterns and dysfunctional behaviors that once insulated us from the emotional and physical consequences of trauma—but no longer serves us in our present life.

Rather than spending a lot of time drilling down into your past, we’ll focus on your life today, and what your current goals and objectives are for therapy.

LET’S CONNECT

Recover. Grow. Thrive.

Meeting You Where You Are

Sometimes life just sucks. You feel stymied and as though you can’t catch a break. Inertia sets in and motivation vanishes. It can feel like your life is passing you by as friends, family members, and colleagues continue to flourish. This can leave you feeling isolated, frustrated, and shamed. Self-loathing sets in and your self-esteem begins to plummet.

Getting support from an objective therapist will help you to understand more clearly what’s going on and create new ways to think about yourself and your relationships with others.

Using a combination of psychotherapy, family systems, somatic and person-centered therapy, I guide you in unpacking and illuminating the obstructions preventing you from living the life you desire and deserve.

My Services