About Alexandra
Alexandra Ivanovsky is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than two decades of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing relationship struggles, grief, low self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and large life transitions. Alexandra offers calm, practical support and works alongside clients to clarify goals and find manageable steps forward.
She draws on broad experience across outpatient mental health, inpatient care, substance abuse programs, hospice and palliative settings, independent practice, and forensic work.
Background and approach
That variety helps her match the way she works to each person’s needs. Sessions emphasize straightforward conversation, clear coping skills, and plans you can try between meetings. Alexandra views the therapeutic relationship as a partnership.
She listens closely, helps identify what matters most, and uses approaches suited to the situation. Her aim is to help people feel steadier and more able to handle change, setbacks, and difficult feelings. Clients can expect practical tools for emotion regulation, clearer communication patterns, and strategies to rebuild self-worth.
She also assists people navigating medical illness, caregiving stress, or substance-related problems, offering care grounded in real-world experience. Licensed in California as an LCSW, Alexandra brings about 23 years of work in clinical settings to every session. She provides care in English and uses formats that fit modern life, including video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Alexandra uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional support. One common approach emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions and improving daily functioning; it teaches clear strategies to reduce overwhelm and handle mood shifts. Another approach concentrates on relationships and communication to help people rebuild trust, set boundaries, and improve how they connect with others.Choosing the right method is part of the work. Alexandra collaborates with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try approaches and adjust the plan as progress and needs become clearer, so the method fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy offers a range of ways to meet without changing care quality. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when video isn’t possible or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or medical appointments and to maintain consistent contact during times of change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English