About Alena
Alena Kaldunski is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers calm, straightforward support for common struggles like depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, and career concerns. Her style aims to make the next steps feel doable rather than overwhelming.
Alena has six years of experience in counseling and mental health therapy. She holds a Masters degree in Counseling and is a California LMFT - a license from the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Background and approach
She works with people facing a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, compassion fatigue, anger, and low self-esteem. Her approach mixes education with gentle reframing. Sessions involve talking through a person’s values and assumptions and learning new ways to see problems.
She keeps conversations open and nonjudgmental so people can try out different strategies in a supportive setting. Alena emphasizes collaboration. She sees clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them use their strengths to move forward.
Practical tools and clear conversation are used to manage symptoms and make day-to-day life easier. People who choose her can expect steady, practical guidance aimed at real problems. The work often includes setting small goals, practicing new skills between sessions, and checking progress together.
She aims to make therapy feel useful from the start.
Practical approaches and flexible online care
Alena uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on teaching skills and shifting perspective. One approach emphasizes education and skills-building to help people manage anxiety and stress through concrete strategies and practice. Another approach uses reframing to examine unhelpful assumptions and replace them with more balanced ways of thinking that reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist and client review goals, try methods that fit the person's needs, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. That collaborative process helps people find ways of coping that match their values and life demands.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when scheduling is tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to continue progress between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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