About Bernina
Bernina Alagic is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She has nine years of experience working with people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, and issues with self-esteem. Bernina speaks English and Bosnian and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel doable and respectful.
She keeps conversations simple and focused. Sessions often center on practical skills for managing anxious moments and improving day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
She uses talk therapy to help people understand patterns that keep them stuck and to try new ways of coping. Bernina draws on a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs. That can include looking at thoughts and behaviors that maintain distress, exploring attachment patterns from past relationships, and practicing mindful awareness to reduce reactivity.
She works with people around concerns such as ADHD, body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and recovery from abuse. Her style is direct but compassionate. She partners with clients to set goals, test small changes, and track progress.
Conversations are tailored to each person rather than following the same script. People come to her wanting clearer communication, less overwhelm, or more stable self-worth. She helps them break big problems into manageable steps and build skills they can use outside of sessions.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and when worry gets in the way of living. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, behaviors, and feelings and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. From there they will try methods that feel most helpful and adjust as needed in collaboration with the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions let people use visual cues and deeper back-and-forth. Phone sessions are handy when bandwidth is limited or you need a shorter check-in. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Bosnian
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