About Alena
Alena Yaseva is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and big life changes. She brings seven years of professional experience to conversations about feeling stuck, losing motivation, or coping with illness and caregiving demands.
She speaks English and Russian, and meets with clients using video, phone, live chat, or text messages. Alena uses straightforward, practical work in sessions.
Background and approach
She focuses on identifying strengths people already have. Then she helps clients build small, doable steps toward clearer thinking and better day-to-day functioning. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-focused, with attention to what feels manageable for each person.
Her practice also addresses issues that often sit beneath common concerns. These include attachment and abandonment worries, family of origin problems, communication struggles, control issues, and feelings of emptiness. She supports people dealing with chronic pain, disability, fertility and cancer-related stress, and the pressures caregivers and first responders can face.
Alena aims to help clients reclaim energy and confidence. She works to make tools and coping strategies fit into real life. Over time, she helps people notice progress and adjust plans as needed.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability. Payment uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Alena draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach concentrates on identifying unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior and then replacing them with more adaptive responses; this helps with anxiety, low mood, and motivation problems. Another approach centers on recognizing attachment and relationship patterns that influence current stress and communication problems, helping people make different choices in relationships and reduce repeated hurt.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alena collaborates with each person to figure out which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they test strategies, track what helps, and adjust the plan if something is not working.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English, Russian