About Alexandra
Alexandra Irish is a licensed counselor and marriage and family therapist in Colorado. She holds LPC and LMFT credentials and brings six years of hands-on clinical work to each meeting. Alexandra focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns.
She offers straightforward help for common struggles like coping with life changes, low self-esteem, parenting strain, and addictions. Sessions emphasize clear skills for managing strong feelings and improving communication.
How Alexandra works
Alexandra draws on approaches that encourage self-compassion alongside concrete behavior changes. Her style balances listening with guidance. Clients can expect collaborative goal-setting and a steady focus on small, achievable steps.
She uses tools to reduce symptoms and build resilience rather than only talking about problems. Alexandra has experience addressing blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, infidelity, and substance-related concerns. She also supports people dealing with obsessive-compulsive patterns, bipolar mood challenges, and impulsivity.
Her background includes work related to veteran and armed forces issues. In sessions she combines client-centered principles with cognitive and skills-based strategies. The aim is to leave each meeting with something practical to try between sessions.
Her approach is calm, direct, and adaptable to different life stages and stressors.
Alexandra lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
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
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care
Alexandra commonly uses client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral strategies in online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on empathic listening and building a supportive space where clients set the pace and priorities. Cognitive behavioral techniques look at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teach practical skills for reducing anxiety, improving mood, and changing unhelpful behaviors.She also brings dialectical behavior therapy skills into virtual work when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed. DBT techniques teach concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and coping with crisis moments without making things worse. Together these approaches offer both validation and clear tools to try between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Alexandra collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts strategies based on what works. Clients help set priorities and try different techniques until they find a good match.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or other obligations while maintaining regular progress.
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