About Cora
Cora Benedict is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and common life transitions. Cora aims to create a calm, respectful space where practical steps come before jargon.
She uses client-centered work to follow each person's priorities and clarify what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with more balanced perspectives.
How Cora works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers tools for emotional regulation and distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming. Cora also draws on emotionally focused and existential ideas to help people sort relationship patterns and find meaning during change. Sessions often include clear skills practice, problem solving, and time to reflect on values and goals.
She explains techniques in simple language and helps people try them between sessions. Her background includes supporting people through parenting strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, addiction concerns, sleep and eating problems, and career or self-esteem struggles. She has experience addressing abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and end-of-life topics.
Cora practices in Alaska as an AK LMFT. Therapy is offered in English and available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The focus is on steady, achievable change rather than quick fixes.
Cora lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Cora works with
The areas below are the ones Cora selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alaska |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s priorities first, with the therapist listening closely and shaping sessions around what the client wants to address. This works well for concerns like grief, caregiving stress, and questions about meaning during life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns in thinking and behavior and practicing new skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating difficulties. Online sessions can include homework, thought records, and short exercises to try between meetings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) gives concrete tools for managing intense emotions and reducing self-destructive reactions. Skills such as breathing, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance are taught in steps and practiced during or after sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that match the client’s needs and preferences, adjusting the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options offer flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or health challenges.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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