About Alexandra
Alexandra Bastien is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She uses practical, goal-focused methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and life changes. Alexandra emphasizes clear steps and realistic strategies in her sessions.
Her style centers on short-term, actionable work. She often uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. Solution-Focused Therapy helps her clients set concrete goals and notice progress quickly.
Background and approach
Alexandra draws on nine years of experience working with issues such as career challenges, relationship strains, grief, trauma, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care histories, caregiver stress, and money or workplace concerns. ADHD is listed among her focus areas and may come up alongside other life difficulties.
In sessions she treats clients as partners in the process. She helps people name priorities, practice new skills, and track small wins between meetings. Her approach is direct but encouraging, aimed at building confidence and practical coping tools.
For someone unsure about starting therapy, Alexandra keeps the first steps straightforward. She invites people to take a matching questionnaire, pick a session format, and begin with a plan that fits their day-to-day life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Alexandra commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes setting clear, short-term goals and noticing progress, which is useful for career issues, relationship concerns, and life transitions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try techniques that fit those aims, and adjust the plan over time. That way the therapy stays practical and centered on what the client wants to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face while keeping geographic flexibility. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent with a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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