About Alexandra
Alexandra Irish is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential and also has a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential. She brings six years of clinical experience to sessions and aims to make therapy straightforward and useful.
Alexandra helps with common problems like anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma. She also supports people facing relationship difficulties, addiction concerns, parenting stress, and big life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and paced to each person's needs. Her style is warm and collaborative. She listens first to understand what matters most.
Then she offers tools people can try between sessions to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. Alexandra uses a mix of approaches depending on the situation. She often draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
These approaches help with emotional regulation, breaking unhelpful patterns, and building stronger communication skills. People who work with Alexandra can expect clear goals and measurable steps. She helps clients set realistic targets and track progress over time.
The aim is steady improvement rather than quick fixes.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s experience at the center and focuses on listening, empathy, and collaboration. It helps people feel heard and make choices that fit their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete tools to change them. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alexandra will discuss goals and preferences and recommend techniques that match the issue at hand. The process is collaborative and can change as needs evolve, blending methods when that makes sense.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different day-to-day demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California, Colorado
- Languages
- English