About Alexandria
Alexandria Lara uses a client-centered approach to guide people through stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship strain. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and she focuses on practical steps that fit each person's life. Her style is straightforward and collaborative, aimed at helping people regain confidence and move forward.
She adapts proven techniques such as cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness to match what each person needs. Sessions often include skill-building for managing strong emotions, shifting unhelpful thinking, and developing clearer communication.
Background and approach
These tools are presented in simple, usable ways for everyday situations. Her background includes about eight years working in both in-patient and outpatient settings in Texas. She has experience providing therapy to adults and youth, and she has led group counseling on topics like acculturation, adjustment, goal-setting, self-esteem, self-harm, and trauma.
That mix of settings informs a flexible approach to care. People who work with her can expect a focus on goals that matter to them, whether that means improving self-esteem, coping with loss, managing moods, or handling family and relationship conflict.
She also addresses areas such as attachment struggles, codependency, and feelings of emptiness by helping people identify patterns and try small, manageable changes. Sessions are offered in multiple formats including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She partners with each person to set realistic steps and supports momentum toward lasting change.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's goals and values. In this approach the therapist follows the client's lead, reflecting concerns and helping people discover their own solutions; it is useful for building confidence and clarity around what matters most.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In short practical steps clients learn new ways to react to stress, reduce anxiety, and manage mood shifts, which makes CBT a good fit for worries, depression, and anger issues.
Emotionally-focused therapy concentrates on identifying and reshaping patterns in close relationships. It helps people name their emotions, understand attachment needs, and practice new ways of responding to partners or family members when relational patterns cause pain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical advantages like flexible scheduling and multiple ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps with ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still using the same therapeutic tools.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English