About Alexis
Alexis James is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She also supports clients facing addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, and challenges such as parenting strain and career concerns. Alexis practices from New York and brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to sessions.
She keeps sessions focused on real changes people can use each week. Conversations look at current thoughts and behaviors, and build simple skills for coping and emotion management.
Background and approach
She uses techniques that help clients notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. With ten years of counseling experience, Alexis blends a few common therapy styles to fit each person. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking, and uses mindfulness and acceptance strategies to reduce reactivity.
She also prioritizes empathy and collaboration so clients feel heard while trying new ways of coping. Alexis has practiced as an LMHC in both Florida and New York. Her background includes work with a wide range of issues such as panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, postpartum depression, and multicultural concerns.
She often helps people facing guilt, abandonment wounds, isolation, or struggles with self-love. Outside of clinical work she is a parent and enjoys travel, interior design, and TV mysteries. She aims to make therapy feel approachable and practical, helping people create small shifts that add up to clearer days.
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns in thinking and behavior and practicing concrete skills to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the persons experience, offering empathic listening that helps people feel understood and able to try new ways of coping.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasnt helped before. Then she adapts techniques so the plan fits your situation and you can see practical progress over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions let you use visual cues for deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into a busy life while using methods that match your needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New York
- Languages
- English