About Alexandra
Alexandra Conrad is a licensed clinical social worker with eighteen years of experience. She practices in Connecticut and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Alexandra uses clear, practical steps to help people move forward.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Clark University and a Master of Social Work from Boston College. Her background includes work in community settings, outpatient clinics, schools, and crisis environments.
Background and approach
This variety shaped a flexible approach to common life problems. Sessions aim to be collaborative. Alexandra helps clients set small, reachable goals and practices skills between meetings.
Conversations can be direct and emotional at times, and she balances that with concrete strategies and encouragement. Her work draws on client-centered ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior therapy skills. She also borrows tools from motivational interviewing and narrative therapy to help people find motivation and reshape unhelpful stories they tell themselves.
People turn to her for help with self-esteem, communication problems, panic attacks, trauma-related symptoms, addiction concerns, and life transitions. She pays attention to safety and practical planning when worries about danger or substance use arise. The overall focus is on building confidence, improving coping, and supporting clearer choices.
Alexandra aims for sessions that feel productive and sometimes even a little encouraging and energizing. If someone is ready to take a step, she helps them map out what comes next.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person's goals. In this approach the therapist follows the client's lead and helps them clarify what they want to change and why it matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches clear skills to shift unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, mood issues, and panic. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication skills for intense emotions and relationship stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Alexandra will work with each person to try methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Over several sessions she will adjust plans and add practical tools so therapy fits the person's pace and priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow more face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone work can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to share thoughts between sessions. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on building skills and making steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English