About Alexandra
Alexandra Cabrera Gerena is a bilingual licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. She has six years of professional experience and speaks both English and Spanish. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, and related concerns.
She approaches sessions with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Conversations and treatment plans are adapted to each person's needs. Alexandra aims to make therapy practical and straightforward so people can use what they learn between sessions.
Background and approach
In the room she blends common-sense tools and evidence-based methods. She uses techniques that help people notice thoughts and change unhelpful patterns. She also draws on mindfulness skills to reduce rumination and calm intense emotions.
Alexandra works with a broad range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger, and career stress. She also supports people facing life transitions, caregiver strain, blended family challenges, and multicultural or veteran-related issues. Sessions can address complicated feelings like guilt, shame, attachment struggles, and isolation.
Alexandra helps people build clearer communication, set boundaries, and find direction toward a more manageable daily life. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. People who choose her often want practical steps and real-time tools.
She encourages small, steady changes and checks in on how strategies are working. The goal is to help clients feel more capable, more aware, and better able to handle life’s challenges.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Alexandra commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that fit their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Alexandra will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and check in to make changes as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people read facial cues and hold longer conversations. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Chat and messaging work well for quick updates, journaling in the moment, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain continuity of care across different circumstances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish