About Bernina
Bernina Alagic is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with nine years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, low self-esteem, and ADHD. Her approach is respectful and direct.
She aims to make the first step feel manageable for a worried parent or an anxious individual. Bernina adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs. She uses straightforward methods to build coping skills and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, practical steps that can fit into busy lives. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness tools are offered to reduce reactivity and increase calm in stressful moments.
Attachment-based ideas help people understand patterns in close relationships and try new ways of relating. Clients can expect a warm, listening style where their experience guides the pace. Goals are set together and reviewed as progress happens.
Bernina encourages people to try concrete skills between sessions and to notice what changes. She speaks English and Bosnian, which can help people who prefer either language. Her practice supports clients across Texas and also accepts international clients.
Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works for the client.
How therapy approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then commit to actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and making steady choices when emotions feel overwhelming.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. It works well for anxiety, low mood, and practical problems that benefit from step-by-step change.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and offers new ways to relate that reduce conflict and increase safety in relationships.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try one or two methods, and adjust based on what helps. Clients are invited to give feedback and shape the plan as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill work, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can support brief check-ins and ongoing encouragement. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this counselor 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