About Alexandra
Dr. Alexandra Duffy is a clinical psychologist who focuses on practical tools to reduce anxiety and manage stress. She draws on 15 years of experience to help people cope with depression, attention challenges, self-esteem struggles, and life transitions.
Her approach is warm and collaborative, with clear steps patients can try between sessions. She uses a mix of therapy styles to fit each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thinking and task-focused habits.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports values-driven choices when anxiety or uncertainty feels overwhelming. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to calm racing thoughts and strengthen attention. Dr.
Duffy also brings psychodynamic ideas into her work to look at how past patterns affect present behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered for emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Together these approaches address common concerns such as sleep problems, eating and body image issues, substance use, and relationship struggles.
Her background includes a Doctor of Clinical Psychology (Psy.D) and a Postdoctoral Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology. Over the years she has worked in inpatient and residential settings and in university counseling centers, which shaped her ability to support people through crises and transitions. Practical life skills are part of her treatment plans.
She helps people improve sleep, exercise, and media habits, and offers strategies for time management and attention regulation. People who need help with grief, parenting stress, or career changes will find structured techniques and a steady, patient focus in sessions.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and still move toward what matters to them. It can be helpful for anxiety, uncertainty, and making values-aligned choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches skills to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce panic, improve sleep, and help with attention and motivation. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving communication in stressful situations.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques together, and adjust methods based on what works for each person. Sessions often mix approaches so practical skills and deeper personal insights both get attention.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people see facial expressions and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good short-check option. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, and written reflections to revisit later. These options provide flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, school, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, California, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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