About Alexandra
Alexandra Irish is a licensed clinician who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship difficulties. She holds credentials as an LPC and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and brings six years of clinical experience in Colorado. Her style is practical and straightforward, aimed at people who want clear tools and steady support.
She focuses on stress, phobias, coping with life changes, and addiction-related concerns. Sessions often include skill-building for handling strong emotions, improving communication, and managing obsessive or compulsive patterns.
Background and approach
Alexandra uses approaches that help people notice thoughts and behaviors and then make small changes that add up. Clients describe her work as collaborative; she helps people set goals and chooses techniques that match those goals. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools alongside client-centered listening and mindfulness exercises.
Motivational Interviewing is used when someone needs support making a change, such as cutting back on substance use. Her background includes working with people affected by trauma, complex family problems, caregiver stress, and relationship strife. She also addresses challenges linked to bipolar symptoms, impulsivity, infidelity, and codependency.
Alexandra pays attention to how family of origin issues and blended family dynamics affect current struggles. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through a mix of live video, phone, chat, and text-based messaging. She aims to help people develop clearer coping strategies, stronger self-compassion, and better communication so they can move forward with more confidence.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience without judgement, helping people feel heard and seen while they talk through problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, phobias, and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills; it is useful when strong emotions or impulsivity get in the way of daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, preferences, and the problem at hand. Strategies can be adjusted over time so sessions remain focused and useful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets the therapist and client use visual cues and worksheets together. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be helpful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers not to use video. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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