About Alexa
Alexa Sorensen is a Michigan-based licensed social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She takes a respectful, person-first approach and adapts conversations and methods to fit each person's needs. Her style is empathetic and straightforward, aimed at making the first steps feel doable for someone feeling overwhelmed.
With 13 years of professional experience, Alexa uses a mix of practical tools and listening to help people navigate relationship concerns, grief and loss, career strain, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing mood challenges such as depression and bipolar disorder, and offers help for ADHD-related struggles and compassion fatigue. Her approach draws on several evidence-based methods including acceptance and commitment work, attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral skills, and emotion regulation strategies from dialectical behavior therapy.
In sessions she balances skill-building with an open, nonjudgmental conversation to match what each person needs most. Alexa has experience with LGBT and gender concerns, non-monogamy topics, and intimacy-related issues, and she also addresses concerns like body image, commitment and codependency, and caregiver stress.
People contact her for coaching around career moves, for support after loss, or to manage ongoing anxiety and stress. She offers sessions through video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. New clients follow a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
Approaches that fit online care
The therapist uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then choose actions that fit their values. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes where people want to act despite uncomfortable feelings.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors. CBT provides clear, step-by-step tools for managing panic, worry, low mood, or work-related stress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try methods that seem like a good fit, and adjust as needed. Clients often combine listening, skills practice, and regular check-ins to see what helps most.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill practice and emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, coaching-style support, or when a brief update fits better into a busy day.
Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she located?
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Which session formats are offered?
How does cost and payment work?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.