About Alexandra
Dr. Alexandra Branagan is a Colorado psychologist with 12 years of experience. She works with adults on concerns that include anxiety, sleep problems, depression, and life changes.
She also helps people facing parenting and fertility stresses, relationship and intimacy questions, and challenges tied to chronic illness or caregiving. She sees people at many points in life - from planning for a child to coping with aging. She focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct and warm. Her aim is to make it easier to talk about hard things without judgment. Her background includes work with neurodevelopmental differences such as ADHD and autism, and with issues around gender, sexual expression, and kink culture.
She also has experience supporting people affected by major life transitions, grief, and multicultural stressors. That variety informs how she tailors care to each person’s situation. Dr.
Branagan describes her approach as collaborative. She works with clients to build a plan that fits their goals and daily life. Sessions mix problem solving, coping skills, and attention to emotional patterns that keep problems going.
She is credentialed as CO Psychologist PSY.0005152, practices in Colorado, and conducts sessions in English. Practical options include video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How her approaches work online
Dr. Branagan uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and clearer thinking. One common approach teaches specific skills to manage anxious thinking and stress, such as identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing alternatives that reduce worry and improve sleep. Another approach focuses on behavior and routines - building consistent sleep habits, gradual steps to face difficult situations, and small experiments to test what helps. These methods are useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, day-to-day life, and comfort level. That means trying an approach, checking how it fits, and adjusting the plan together as needed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style reminders, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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