About Alexander
Alexander Gordon is a licensed psychotherapist practicing in California. He has three years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction.
Background and approach
He aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak honestly about what’s worrying them. He starts by listening carefully in early sessions to understand a person's history and current struggles.
That information guides a shared plan with clear, practical goals. Sessions tend to focus on small, doable steps that fit into everyday life.
Alexander uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. He draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings, and cognitive-behavioral tools to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness and client-centered methods help people build self-awareness and self-compassion. He also works with issues connected to relationships, parenting stress, sleep problems, grief, trauma, and challenges like impulsivity or substance use.
Alexander pays attention to how emotions, habits, and life events connect, and he helps clients practice new responses. Sessions are collaborative and practical.
He helps people set realistic steps, check progress, and adjust plans as life changes. The aim is to reduce distress and increase confidence in handling daily challenges.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Alexander integrates attachment-based work and cognitive-behavioral techniques in a way that fits online formats. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early and current relationships influence feelings and behavior, helping people understand patterns that affect trust and closeness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then recommend or combine methods. This is a collaborative conversation and adjustments are made as therapy proceeds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for a fuller interaction, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when scheduling around work and caregiving is needed. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and to practice skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English