About Alexis
Alexis Kirkendall is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of practice in Arizona. She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and relationship concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make sessions welcoming and straightforward for people seeking change.
Her style is warm and engaging. She treats people with dignity and listens first to what matters most. Sessions are shaped around the person's goals and current challenges rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Alexis uses practical methods to help people cope and make progress. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to spot and change unhelpful thinking. Attachment-based ideas help when past relationships affect current ones.
Solution-focused and motivational techniques are used to set small, doable goals and build momentum. She has worked across a broad range of concerns, including parenting stress, family conflict, grief around adoption and foster care, identity and multicultural issues, and struggles with guilt or shame. Trauma and self-harm are also areas she addresses, with attention to safety and immediate needs.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Alexis works with each person to choose what fits their life and goals. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair someone with the scheduling options that match their needs.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand connection, trust, and how to respond when relationships feel unsafe or distant. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and changing patterns that get in the way of daily life. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and pace, with the therapist offering empathy and acceptance while the person leads the goals.Deciding which approach fits is part of the work. Alexis will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. She often mixes approaches so sessions stay practical and focused on small, achievable changes.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls make it easy to have a fuller conversation and see nonverbal cues. Phone sessions are a good lower-bandwidth option or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people send updates or get brief support between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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