About Alexandra
Alexandra Barchitta is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people navigate anxiety, stress, depression, and struggles with substance use. She uses clear, direct techniques to help clients name problems and find workable next steps. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth for people feeling overwhelmed.
Alexandra draws on methods that focus on changing unhelpful thinking and building coping skills. She also uses strategies that teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance so people can manage strong feelings in the moment.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to include skills practice, real-world homework, and short-term goals that fit everyday life. Her work is informed by a multicultural feminist perspective. That means she pays attention to how identity and social context shape stress and relationships.
She also offers care that is aware of LGBTQA+ issues and the specific pressures those communities can face. Alexandra has four years of clinical experience and holds a License in Mental Health Counseling - LMHC. She practices from New York and conducts sessions in English.
Her experience includes helping people with addiction concerns alongside mood and anxiety difficulties. In sessions she focuses on collaboration and practical steps. People can expect clear communication about goals, regular check-ins on progress, and tools to use between sessions.
The aim is to reduce overwhelm and make daily life feel more manageable.
Practical approaches delivered online
Alexandra uses evidence-based techniques that focus on changing thinking patterns and building coping skills. Cognitive behavioral approaches help identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced thinking, which can reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical approaches teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills to help people manage intense feelings and reduce reactive behaviors.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Alexandra works with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is tracked over time. She explains options and practices techniques together with clients so they leave sessions with concrete tools.
Online therapy offers flexibility that many people need. Video calls let you work face-to-face when visual cues help. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for ongoing check-ins and brief skill coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent amid a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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