Allison Lansky, LMFT, CEDS, NCC

Allison Lansky, LMFT, CEDS, NCC

allisonlansky@temenoscenter.com
856-722-9043, ext. 706

Allison Lansky has over 25 years of experience in psychology and counseling, working with individuals, couples, and families across the lifespan. From 2009 to 2021, she treated patients with eating disorders at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, where she served as both clinician and leader on a multidisciplinary team providing acute care for children, adolescents, adults, and their partners and families with the full range of feeding and eating disorders. She also facilitated groups on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Grief, Loss, and Meaning.

Allison’s clinical experience spans diverse populations and a wide range of concerns, including the full range of eating disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, alexithymia, sexual and childhood emotional trauma, and non-suicidal self-injury. These experiences have shaped a therapeutic style that is flexible, creative, and multidimensional, with a strong foundation in trauma-informed care.

Today, Allison provides outpatient therapy in a general practice while maintaining a particular focus on eating disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, and the complex challenges that can arise within individuals and families. She works with people navigating acute personal or family crises, the impact of childhood attachment experiences on present-day relationships, self-esteem and confidence, chronic medical illness, and parent–child relationships, including those shaped by intergenerational trauma. She also has extensive experience supporting people through major life transitions, including divorce, graduation, retirement, and the transition to parenthood for both mothers and fathers.

A significant focus of Allison’s work is parent coaching, an area she believes deserves thoughtful attention and care. She partners with parents to strengthen connection and communication with their children, supporting bonding, listening, loving and effective discipline, parental confidence and authority, and the ability to adapt to evolving family dynamics.

Allison’s work is grounded in Structural Family Therapy, with a strong emphasis on family-system interventions that can be integrated even when clients are seen individually. She draws flexibly from a range of therapeutic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Fluency Development, Logotherapy, Bibliotherapy, Grief and Meaning-Centered work, and Compassion-Focused Therapy. Warmth, humor, and sensitivity are integral to her therapeutic presence and complement her clinical skills and experience.

At the heart of Allison’s work is the belief that meaningful therapeutic relationships are foundational to healing. She attends to the full relational context of her patients’ lives, including the important bonds they share with loved ones and the losses they encounter along the way, including the deeply felt loss of beloved pets. When relevant, she welcomes thoughtful exploration of personal values, meaning, and spirituality as part of the broader human experience and healing process. She is LGBTQ+ affirming and committed to creating a safe and supportive space for people to explore their identities, relationships, and experiences.

Allison attended The College of New Jersey, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology, master’s degree in community counseling, and educational specialist degree in marriage and family therapy. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Nationally Board-Certified Eating Disorders Specialist, and holds a National Certification in Counseling from the National Board of Certified Counselors.