About Kerline
Kerline Alexis is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem struggles, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma, ADHD, and more. She writes plainly and offers steady support for everyday difficulties. Kerline practices in New York and brings six years of clinical experience to her work.
Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions are grounded in respect and compassion with a nonjudgmental tone.
Background and approach
Kerline listens closely and helps people name problems and build practical ways to cope. She blends psychodynamic work with cognitive-behavioral tools. That means she pays attention to patterns from the past while teaching skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors now.
She also draws on dialectical strategies and motivational interviewing to help clients manage strong emotions and find motivation to try new habits. In a typical meeting she will invite curiosity about difficult feelings, then offer concrete exercises to practice between sessions. Clients may work on communication, anger management, sleep and eating concerns, or strategies for handling life transitions.
The pace is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs. Kerline aims to empower people so they feel more able to cope, make choices, and improve day-to-day functioning. She accepts English-speaking clients and works with people from a variety of cultural backgrounds in individual formats via online and remote session types.
Practical approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, empathetic space where people feel heard. It helps when someone needs steady support to talk through feelings, parenting stress, or relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches clear skills to change behaviors and mood. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and coping with life changes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kerline will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best. Together they review goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps in real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and messaging let people check in between meetings or do shorter exchanges when schedules are tight. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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