About Alexandra
Alexandra Conrad is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, low mood, and life transitions. She practices in Connecticut and brings a straightforward, warm approach to sessions. Alexandra focuses on building a strong working relationship so clients feel heard and can take practical steps forward.
She trained in psychology and social work, then spent years in community settings, outpatient clinics, schools, and crisis care.
How Alexandra works
That variety gave her experience with many kinds of problems, from panic attacks and mood disorders to addiction and recovery. Her background helps her tailor strategies to each person’s situation. In sessions she blends Client-Centered Therapy with cognitive and skills-based approaches.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to teach concrete skills for managing intense emotions and changing unhelpful thoughts. Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy are added when exploring values, motivation, and life stories. Alexandra aims to make therapy both productive and engaging.
She encourages goal-setting and skill practice between meetings, and she pays attention to strengths people already have. Her style is collaborative and often direct, with room for creativity and humor when appropriate. People come to her for help with relationship and communication problems, attachment concerns, feelings of emptiness or isolation, guilt and shame, and coping with major life changes.
She works to turn goals into actions and to help clients regain a sense of purpose and confidence.
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What Alexandra works with
The areas below are the ones Alexandra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people set goals that matter to them. Online sessions let the therapist and client work together to identify priorities and build a trusting working relationship. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete techniques to notice thought patterns and change behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, panic, mood problems, and stress and translates well to exercises done between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills. Those skills can be practiced in real life and discussed over video or messaging to reinforce learning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Alexandra will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time based on what is helping and what feels useful to the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging works for short updates or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to continue work between meetings.
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