Alexandra Barchitta , LMHC

Alexandra Barchitta is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and self-esteem struggles. She works with clients who are navigating LGBT issues and related concerns. Her style is direct and practical and she aims to make therapy easy to understand.

Alexandra uses a multicultural feminist perspective to center identity and social context in sessions. She combines practical skills with attention to how culture, gender, and power affect daily life. Sessions often include short exercises and concrete steps clients can try between meetings.

Her background includes work focused on substance use and queer-affirming care. Alexandra brings four years of clinical experience and holds a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential. She draws on several evidence-based methods to tailor the work to each person.

In a typical visit she listens for what feels most urgent, then helps clients set small, achievable goals. She supports people through relationship and family-of-origin issues, grief over abandonment, struggles with identity, and patterns like dependent personality or dissociation. She also addresses chronic pain, illness, and the emotional fallout of domestic violence and substance use.

People who prefer clear guidance and practical tools often find this approach helpful. Alexandra emphasizes collaboration and ongoing adjustment of goals so the work stays relevant to each client’s life.

Approaches that translate well to online care

Alexandra uses evidence-based techniques that work well in remote sessions. Cognitive behavioral approaches break problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teach concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Skills-focused approaches that borrow from dialectical methods help people manage strong emotions and improve communication through brief practices and coping strategies. Motivational interviewing supports people who are unsure about change by exploring values and building readiness one step at a time.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work and a collaborative process. Alexandra will listen to goals, assess what feels most urgent, and recommend techniques to try. She adjusts methods over time so the pace and tools match each person’s needs and preferences.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be quieter and use less bandwidth, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing processing between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to keep continuity when schedules change.