About Alexandra
Dr. Alexandra Duffy is a clinical psychologist who uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage anxiety, phobias, mood concerns, attention problems, and life stressors. She draws on 15 years of experience to create clear plans patients can follow.
Sessions focus on skills that reduce distress and support better day-to-day functioning. Her work blends cognitive-behavioral tools with mindfulness and acceptance strategies. She introduces techniques for managing panic, regulating emotions, and changing unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Skills practice is emphasized so people can try new ways of coping between sessions. Dr. Duffy also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and psychodynamic ideas to understand patterns that repeat over time.
That combination helps people address immediate symptoms while looking at long-standing relationship or self-image themes. She makes time to talk about sleep, eating, and routines that affect mood and attention. She has supported people facing depression, bipolar challenges, ADHD, addictions, grief, and concerns about intimacy and body image.
Parents and students who need help with organization, focus, or school-related stress can expect concrete strategies to improve performance and manage overwhelm. Training includes a Doctor of Clinical Psychology degree and postdoctoral study in clinical psychopharmacology. Dr.
Duffy has worked in inpatient settings, university counseling centers, and independent practice. Her background informs an approach that balances short-term relief with longer-term growth.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Dr. Duffy commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based approaches to address anxiety, phobias, mood problems, and attention concerns. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce worry and avoidance. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and improve focus.She also incorporates elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills when emotions feel overwhelming. These approaches are practical and skills-focused, which can work well in online sessions where homework and between-session practice are planned collaboratively. Finding the right approach is part of the work together; she will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful and then adjust methods as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skills practice, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging formats work for brief check-ins or step-by-step coaching. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, maintain momentum between meetings, and practice new skills where they matter most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, California, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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