About Alexander
Alexander Guzman is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience in New York. He focuses on stress, anxiety, self-esteem, career concerns, depression, and coping with life changes. He aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what matters most to them.
He centers sessions on the person's experience and strengths. He listens closely and helps clients identify small, practical steps forward. He uses motivational questioning to clear confusion and support workable choices about work, relationships, and purpose.
How Alexander works
He also draws on existential ideas to help people face big questions about meaning and direction. That can be useful when someone feels emptiness, guilt, or a sense of drifting. Jungian perspectives are used to notice recurring patterns and personal stories that shape behavior and choices.
Communication and attachment concerns are common topics in his work. He helps people address relationship problems, fatherhood issues, control struggles, and difficulties tied to immigration or living with HIV / AIDS. He also helps with body image, isolation, and forgiveness when those come up in sessions.
Sessions blend listening with practical exercises tailored to each person. The goal is clearer thinking, stronger coping, and steps that fit daily life. Alexander encourages people to move at a pace that feels manageable and to use therapy as a place to try out new ways of living.
Alexander lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Alexander works with
The areas below are the ones Alexander selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy for direction and coping
Client-centered work focuses on the person's own goals and strengths. The therapist listens first, reflects what matters, and helps set small, practical steps to test between sessions. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, self-esteem, and everyday decision-making.Existential therapy looks at questions of meaning, responsibility, and life direction. It helps people who feel emptiness, guilt, or a lack of purpose consider values and make choices that fit their life story. Motivational interviewing uses open questions and gentle feedback to build readiness for change and support follow-through on goals like career shifts or behavior changes.
Finding the right approach is something to explore together. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to the client's needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust the plan as work progresses. That process helps people feel more confident that the sessions are useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls reduce bandwidth needs, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy schedules.
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