Alexandra Pajak , LCSW

Alexandra Pajak is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of practice helping people navigate hard times. She uses straightforward, supportive sessions to help people talk through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and struggles with substance use. She favors practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help clients change patterns that cause pain. Sessions aim to identify unhelpful thoughts and teach skills for managing intense emotions and urges. Mindfulness and motivational approaches are used when people want grounding techniques and help finding motivation to change. Her work also addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, body image and eating issues, ADHD, and trauma. Alexandra pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes and to how past loss shows up now. She also supports people navigating kink and alternative sexual cultures with a nonjudgmental stance. Alexandra holds a graduate degree and practices as an LCSW in Georgia. She speaks English and brings over a decade of clinical experience to sessions. Her style is practical and direct, with room for warmth and curiosity. People who do best with her approach want clear skills and honest conversation. She helps clients set concrete goals and builds steps toward them. The aim is calmer days, clearer choices, and better coping as life shifts.

How her approaches translate to online care

Alexandra commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy online. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, reducing self-harm urges, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Finding the right blend of approaches is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences, and will adjust techniques as therapy progresses. Online sessions offer practical benefits for people with busy or shifting schedules. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face from different places. Phone sessions are useful when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, skill practice between meetings, and short updates when a full session is not possible. These options allow flexibility in how and when people access therapy while keeping the focus on applying skills and making steady progress.