- Focus on relationships
- LGBTQ and gender aware
- Practical coping skills
About Alexa
Alexa Sorensen, LMSW, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or big life changes. She offers a calm, person-first approach and adapts conversations to each person’s needs. She encourages small first steps and recognizes that starting therapy takes courage.
With 13 years of experience in Michigan, Alexa focuses on relationship concerns, LGBTQ and gender-related issues, and non-monogamy topics. She also supports people dealing with grief and loss, career stress, parenting strain, and challenges such as depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her work includes attention to intimacy-related struggles, anger, and communication problems.
Alexa blends practical skills and reflective conversation. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to identify unhelpful thought patterns and from acceptance-based methods to help people live from their values. Attachment-informed ideas guide how she looks at patterns in close relationships.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and straightforward. Alexa listens, helps set goals, and teaches coping strategies that fit daily life. She also offers coaching-style work when people want specific action steps for career or life transitions.
People who value an empathic, adaptable therapist may find this style useful. Alexa works in English and practices in Michigan as an LMSW. If you want to try therapy, she asks you to complete a short matching questionnaire to begin the process.
How therapy approaches guide online work
The therapist commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then choosing actions that match your values; it can help with anxiety, stress, and making meaningful life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current trust and connection, which can help with intimacy and communication difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick or combine methods based on needs, goals, and what feels most helpful. That way the work stays practical and relevant to day-to-day life.
Confirm the current online session options before booking, as specific formats are set by the therapist. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it simpler to keep appointments during work breaks or when life is otherwise hectic, while still allowing the therapist to teach skills and support progress remotely.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, career difficulties, parenting strain, mood concerns like depression and bipolar, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapy style?
The style is empathic and person-first, adapting dialogue and techniques to each person's needs while teaching practical coping skills and goal-focused work.
What is her professional background?
She has 13 years of professional experience and practices as a licensed master social worker in Michigan.
Where does she practice and what credential does she hold?
She practices in Michigan and holds the credential MI LMSW, which stands for Michigan Licensed Master Social Worker.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.