About Alexandria
Alexandria Libby is a licensed clinical social worker who brings six years of hands-on experience to her practice. She offers sessions from Missouri and focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Alexandria aims to create an open atmosphere where clients feel heard and understood.
She has worked with people dealing with attention and focus concerns such as ADHD and with those navigating substance use and addiction. Her background also includes supporting people with mood disorders, panic attacks, and issues around self-esteem and anger.
Background and approach
Alexandria pays attention to how life events and losses shape daily coping. Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions usually involve talking through current struggles, identifying small changes that can help right away, and building longer-term coping skills.
She encourages clients to set realistic goals and to move at a pace that feels manageable. Alexandria understands the strain of parenting, blended-family tensions, and caregiving near the end of life. She also has experience with concerns related to gender dysphoria and LGBTQ matters.
These topics are handled with respect and a focus on the person’s individual needs. People who prefer brief, focused visits or ongoing weekly sessions can find a structure that fits. Alexandria works by collaborating with each person to choose strategies that fit their daily life.
Her goal is to help people feel steadier and better able to handle the next steps.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Alexandria uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and emotional recovery. One approach emphasizes coping skills and behavioral strategies to manage anxiety and panic attacks; sessions teach short practices and step-by-step plans that people can use between visits. Another approach centers on processing trauma and abuse in a paced way so memories and reactions feel less overwhelming; this involves grounding exercises and gradual revisiting of difficult experiences.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about current struggles, goals, and what has helped in the past. Together they try methods for a few sessions and adjust based on what feels most helpful and doable for the person.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls work well when visual cues and face-to-face conversation matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit regular work on goals into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Gender dysphoria
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English