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Trailtalk
We are accepting new clients who wish to talk their way through the beautiful trails of Park City.
Trailtalk offers flexible hours to accommodate work schedules and other time demands. Early morning, some evenings and weekend appointments are available.
Walking paths populate most neighborhoods and business districts in the Park City area. Walking locations are determined when making appointments.
WALK AND TALK THERAPY
PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATION EVALUATIONS
(includes close follow up via email/text as new treatments are implemented)
MEDICATION AND THERAPY COMBINED VISITS
MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE ADVOCACY
OTHER SERVICES
(phone, text, follow-ups, video calls, email, etc.)
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Allison has been a Nurse Practitioner since 1980. She received a Master’s degree in Pediatric Nursing in 1985. Subsequently, she spent several years working with homeless families and developed the current pediatric health care program that exists today at Salt Lake City’s 4th Street Clinic.
She’s also worked with children who suffer from asthma teaching them self-management skills. Allison spent time training rural public health nurses to identify at-risk children using developmental screening tools.
Allison enjoys third world non-profit work. When her children were teenagers, she and her family traveled to South America during summer breaks to provide needed health care to under-served communities.
Over the years, Allison became more interested in the psycho-social dynamics of families, returning to graduate school in 2007 to hone those skills. She received a Post Master’s Certificate in Psychiatric Nursing. Allison is also trained in EMDR therapy.
In 2010, Allison was walking in the woods with her dog and realized how much she needs time in the outdoors to clear her head and gain perspective on her own life. She had a light bulb moment and thought, “I am going to walk and talk with my clients.” Trailtalk was born.
Trailtalk normalizes therapy and everyone’s basic human need for help, by taking you into a casual, outdoor setting that is much more conducive to a conversation. Seriously, have you ever tried seeking help from someone who is sitting on a couch or chair and all you get is a clinical stare and note scribbling? This is so different. These people literally walk beside you and help you to find answers to your own problems. They listen and ask questions in the way a good friend would, except, they still hold you accountable and you still have to do the work. I think one of the things I find appealing, too, is that this approach puts you on par with the person helping you and you don’t feel like you are being put under a microscope. You are physically doing something outside and having introspective thought and conversation with some awesome and thoughtful people. It is a wonderful approach.