Meet Allie Hoyt
LCMHCA, NCC
SHE/HER
In Person & Virtual Therapy
Hey, I’m Allie, and I’m so glad you’re here.
Finding a clinician can mean sorting through an endless number of profiles, hoping someone finally feels different—someone who will take your lived experience seriously without asking you to prove that it is real, endlessly translate it, or reshape yourself before being met with care and understanding.
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Maybe you know what it is like to move through spaces that were never designed to include all of you. Whatever brought you here, I’m so glad you found your way to this corner of the internet.
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I am a human first and a clinician second. I believe deeply human connection and clinical excellence do not need to be separated—they belong in the same room.
I do not believe a clinician ever fully “arrives” at ethics or competence. I never want competence to become complacency or certainty to replace curiosity, humility, and reflection. Ethical, clinically competent care is the nonnegotiable foundation of my work. But a foundation is where responsibility begins—not the finish line or outer limit of what my clients deserve.
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My curiosity has never stayed neatly in one lane. I learn from research, clinical trainings, books, documentaries, nature, animals, the people I love—and, with surprising frequency, nearly anything involving art history or an elaborate art heist. I learn through formal scholarship and through the ordinary, strange, beautiful, and deeply human parts of life.
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Clients are never responsible for educating me or carrying my growth; that work belongs to me. Still, what I am entrusted with matters. The impact of this work does not stop on your side of the couch—it reaches the chair where I sit, too. I would never want to move through this work untouched. I honor its impact by continuing to reflect, learn, and deepen how I practice while keeping our time firmly centered on you
"To shine your brightest light is to be who you really are. " - Roy Bennett
MY SPECIALTIES
Areas of Interest
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I seem to collect catchphrases, but one captures how I understand people and therapy:
“People aren’t for fixing. People are for supporting.”
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I want to understand the full context of your experience: your nervous system, identities, culture, relationships, history, environment, strengths, needs, and adaptations. I want to understand not only what is happening, but what shaped it, what it protects, and what it means to you.
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My approach is relational, contextual, collaborative, creative, and responsive—shaped around the person in front of me rather than a rigid formula. Research informs my work, but it is applied with empathy, curiosity, humor, and genuine human connection, always in conversation with your culture, context, preferences, and lived experience.
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Therapeutic approaches should serve people—not force people to fit the model. We will work with your brain rather than against it, and we will not mistake compliance, productivity, or appearing “fine” for healing.
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Our work can be both gentle and direct. We can get to the root without forcing vulnerability, creating unnecessary overwhelm, or moving faster than your nervous system can follow.
Deep work does not have to mean overwhelming work.
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In Here, You Get to Decide
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You decide what we explore, how much you share, how deeply we go, and when we pause. “No,” “not yet,” and “I don’t know” are always welcome. Consent remains active throughout our work. You can pause, redirect us, or change your mind at any time.
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We can stop often and pause plenty. We may slow down and pause to process, to make sure all aspects of your experience are welcomed in the room and given time and space to exist without judgement or expectation.
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You hold the initiative; I hold the therapeutic structure. Structure supports your agency—never replace it. I bring clinical knowledge, curiosity, steadiness, consistency, and structure; you bring the irreplaceable expertise of living your life. My clinical knowledge matters, but it does not outrank your expertise. My job is to understand the world through your eyes—not impose my worldview on your life. My role is to listen closely, ask meaningful questions, offer perspective, and help you hear your own internal compass more clearly.
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Trust is earned by me, and it should be. Safety is not something I get to declare on your behalf; I am responsible for intentionally building and protecting the conditions in which it can grow. Respect and empathy are willingly and freely given here. You do not have to earn them.
You get to exist here without performing, masking, curating your self-expression, or arriving as the most polished version of yourself.
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The goal is for you to strengthen your trust in your internal compass.
Allie's Story
My path into counseling was shaped by a mosaic of experiences that showed me how deeply connected our minds, bodies, identities, relationships, environments, and communities truly are. Those experiences continue to shape how I understand people: contextually, relationally, and as far more than a presenting concern.
Before becoming a counselor, I spent years working closely with people living with terminal illnesses. That work taught me that illness never affects only a body; it reaches into identity, relationships, grief, meaning, well-being, and the way a future is imagined.
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I also spent significant time immersed in the high-stakes world of Division I collegiate athletics, supporting athletes navigating sports medicine, physical injuries, intense performance pressure, acute stress, and major identity shifts. Working alongside people whose bodies, roles, goals, and expected futures could change in a single moment taught me how to remain steady.
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These experiences shaped a clinical style grounded in evidence-informed, person-centered, relational, and trauma-informed care and guided by decolonizing, anti-racist, depathologizing, neuroaffirming, and strengths-based perspectives.
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I draw flexibly from a range of therapeutic approaches according to your needs, goals, preferences, and consent. My work is radically human, deeply collaborative, and responsive to your timeline—not a predetermined version of what therapy is supposed to look like.
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Being a counselor is not simply a job to me. It is an immense honor.
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My commitment to the values of this work extends beyond the 53-minute session through advocacy for equitable and accessible care, working with people’s brains instead of against them, and helping create systems and spaces that include, consider, respect, and celebrate the people they are meant to serve.
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Outside the Office
Outside the therapy room, I love slow, quiet mornings with a cup of coffee. In the afternoon, I switch to iced matcha because I love both caffeine and a good night’s sleep.
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I am a massive fan of dopamine dressing: bright colors, bold patterns, and plenty of pink, red, and polka dots—because clothes and expression bring me joy.
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I find peace in nature, journaling, exploring culinary traditions from around the world, and watching the sunset when I need to reset my perspective and take a deep breath.
Education
MA Counseling, Specialization in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, ​
Wake Forest University, 2026
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BS in Psychology,
Tulane University, 2024
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Licensure
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Associate (LCMHCA)
National Certified Counselor (NCC)
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Supervised by Jena Plummer, LCMHCS, LCAS
Training & Modalities
Narrative Therapy
Somatic and Sensory-Informed Practices
Neuroaffirming Practices
Parts Work
Motivational Interviewing
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Creative and Experiential Therapy
Brainspotting, Phase One
Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Neuroaffirming Exposure and Response Prevention
Safe Zone LGBTQIA+ Allyship Training
MIGDAS-2 Adult Autism Assessment Training, Phase One
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), training in progress