all about Alexa
Alexa is a compassionate and deeply relational therapist dedicated to helping clients move beyond survival patterns, reconnect with themselves, and create meaningful, lasting change. Raised in Mexico City and based in the United States for over two decades, Alexa brings a multicultural lens to her work, integrating cultural sensitivity, warmth, and curiosity into every therapeutic relationship. Her lived experience allows her to deeply understand the complexities of identity, belonging, family dynamics, and navigating multiple cultural worlds, creating a space where clients feel genuinely seen and understood.
Alexa holds a Master’s degree in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness from New York University and has extensive experience working with individuals navigating anxiety, OCD, depression, relationship difficulties, perfectionism, trauma, emotional overwhelm, and major life transitions. She is especially passionate about helping clients who feel stuck in cycles of overthinking, self-criticism, people-pleasing, emotional avoidance, or intrusive thoughts begin to build a more compassionate and grounded relationship with themselves.
Alexa specializes in working with OCD and anxiety disorders through Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), an evidence-based treatment that helps clients gradually face feared thoughts, sensations, emotions, and uncertainties without relying on compulsions, reassurance-seeking, avoidance, or control behaviors. She works with a wide range of OCD presentations, including intrusive thoughts, perfectionism, relationship OCD, health anxiety, existential fears, hyper-responsibility, emotional contamination, reassurance-seeking, rumination, and compulsive checking behaviors. Alexa approaches ERP with both structure and compassion, helping clients understand that healing is not about “getting rid” of thoughts, but learning how to respond to them differently and reclaim their lives from fear.
Alexa is particularly attuned to clients struggling with perfectionism, fear of abandonment, emotional hypervigilance, low self-worth, burnout, attachment wounds, relationship and intimacy challenges, and difficulties regulating overwhelming emotions. She also works with individuals navigating grief, parental divorce, identity exploration, cultural adaptation, professional or academic stress, and the lasting emotional impacts of trauma, including sexual trauma and experiences that may affect safety, trust, intimacy, and self-worth. Alexa approaches this work with deep sensitivity, care, and respect for each client’s pace and emotional readiness. Her therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, nonjudgmental, and deeply human, allowing clients to feel both emotionally supported and gently challenged toward growth.
Areas of exploration with clients: Anxiety and chronic stress, OCD and Intrusive thoughts, Perfectionism and fear of failure, Emotional regulation and overwhelm, Relationship and intimacy challenges, fear of abandonment and attachment wounds, Depression and low mood, Trauma, grief and loss, Burnout and professional stress, Life transitions and adjustment difficulties, Cultural identity and adaptation, People pleasing and boundary setting, and Body image and shame-related struggles.
Modalities used: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Strengths-Based Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Relational Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy and Trauma-informed Therapy.
how she works
Alexa’s therapeutic approach is integrative, experiential, and highly individualized, grounded in the belief that therapy should feel collaborative, compassionate, and deeply attuned to each client’s unique story. She understands that symptoms such as anxiety, OCD, perfectionism, emotional reactivity, people-pleasing, or avoidance often develop as adaptive ways of coping with fear, pain, uncertainty, or unmet emotional needs. Rather than pathologizing these experiences, Alexa helps clients understand the protective function behind them while also building healthier and more flexible ways of responding.
A significant part of Alexa’s work focuses on Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the gold-standard treatment for OCD and anxiety disorders. Alexa helps clients gradually confront feared thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, memories, and uncertainties while reducing compulsive behaviors such as reassurance-seeking, rumination, checking, avoidance, mental reviewing, and over-analysis. Her ERP work is both evidence-based and emotionally attuned, helping clients move beyond intellectual insight and into real nervous-system change through lived experience. She believes healing occurs not through certainty or perfect control, but through learning that discomfort, uncertainty, and vulnerability can be tolerated safely.
Alexa also incorporates Internal Family Systems (IFS), helping clients identify and build relationships with the different “parts” of themselves that may carry fear, shame, perfectionism, anger, self-criticism, or emotional pain. Through this work, clients often develop greater self-awareness, emotional clarity, and self-compassion rather than remaining trapped in cycles of internal conflict.
Drawing from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and DBT-informed interventions, Alexa helps clients recognize unhelpful thought patterns, strengthen emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills, increase psychological flexibility, and reconnect with behaviors and values that create a more meaningful life. Her approach balances insight with action, allowing clients not only to understand themselves more deeply, but also to make tangible changes in how they relate to emotions, relationships, and everyday challenges.
Alexa’s style is warm, grounded, and authentic. She prioritizes creating a space where clients feel emotionally safe, deeply understood, and empowered to show up fully as themselves. She believes therapy works best when clients feel they do not have to perform, mask, or “have it all figured out.” While Alexa leads with compassion and emotional attunement, she also thoughtfully and gently challenges clients when needed, helping them move beyond avoidance patterns, self-limiting beliefs, and cycles that may no longer serve them. Her goal is to help clients move toward greater emotional freedom, self-trust, resilience, and connection— both with themselves and with others.
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Education
Degree MA MHCW
University NYU Steinhardt
Alexa holds a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and Wellness from New York University Steinhardt and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in the State of New York.
Certificates and Trainings
Alexa has completed certification training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) through the Medical University of South Carolina and has received specialized training in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD and anxiety disorders, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and DBT-informed interventions for emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Her clinical work is grounded in evidence-based treatment for OCD, anxiety, trauma, perfectionism, and relational difficulties, while maintaining a compassionate, relational, and trauma-informed approach to therapy.
Alexa continues to pursue advanced consultation and ongoing specialized training in OCD and anxiety treatment, allowing her to provide clients with thoughtful, evidence-based, and up-to-date ERP care.