About Alexandra
Alexandra Ivanovsky is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than two decades of experience supporting people through difficult life moments. She focuses on practical help for relationship struggles, grief, self-esteem challenges, bipolar disorder, and adapting to life changes. She keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented.
Conversations explore what feels most urgent, and she helps people develop realistic steps to feel steadier. The pace and focus change based on each person's needs and day-to-day realities.
How Alexandra works
Her background includes work across outpatient mental health, inpatient care, substance abuse programs, hospice and palliative care, independent practice, and forensic settings. Those varied roles shaped a down-to-earth style that balances compassion with clear direction. Alexandra pairs experience with attentive listening to help people sort priorities and cope with loss, mood shifts, and major changes.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques selected to match what each person needs in the room. Sessions cover both emotional support and practical skills - from communication strategies to managing symptoms and building healthier routines. People who prefer an organized, partnership-based approach may find her style helpful.
She is licensed in California as an LCSW and offers help in English. Her work aims to meet people where they are and support steady progress through life's transitions.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Alexandra uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques chosen to match each person's needs. One common approach focuses on practical skills for managing mood and daily routines, which can help with bipolar symptoms, depression, and anxiety by building predictable habits and coping strategies. Another common technique emphasizes processing loss and change through guided conversations and grief-focused work, helping people make room for difficult feelings while moving toward adjustment.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and current situation. Over time, the plan can shift as needs change, so clients and the therapist decide together what helps most.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while keeping consistent support.
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