About Alexandra
Alexandra Conrad is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with high honors from Clark University and a Master of Social Work from Boston College. She practices in Connecticut and offers services in English, including to international clients when appropriate.
Her style is collaborative and practical. She focuses on building rapport quickly and using clear goals in sessions. She helps people handle stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Alexandra combines skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy with motivational interviewing and narrative therapy. In sessions she helps clients learn concrete coping skills, rethink unhelpful thoughts, and tell their story in ways that reduce shame and increase agency. She includes hands-on tools and short exercises to practice between meetings.
She has worked in community settings, outpatient clinics, schools, crisis situations, and state hospital levels of care. That variety informs a flexible approach that fits different life circumstances and stressors. Sessions can address panic attacks, mood disorders, attachment and communication problems, addiction-related concerns, guilt and shame, and the strain of major life changes.
Alexandra aims to turn client goals into real, manageable steps while keeping the therapeutic space respectful and grounded.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. It helps people feel heard and guides goals at a pace that fits them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety and manage mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help with panic attacks and intense mood swings.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Alexandra will collaborate with each person to try methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan over time rather than committing to one rigid path.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video allows face-to-face conversation and role-play for communication work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, skill reminders, and short coaching between longer sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility so people can practice skills and stay connected to therapy despite busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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