- Warm collaborative style
- Focus on daily skills
- Evidence informed methods
About Alexandra
Dr. Alexandra Duffy uses a blend of practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people strengthen self-esteem and manage stress. She is a clinical psychologist with licenses as a CA Psychologist 20193 and NC Psychologist 3202 and brings 15 years of experience to her work. She writes plainly, listens closely, and builds plans with each person’s daily life in mind.
Her sessions focus on skills that make day-to-day life easier. That can include strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy for unhelpful thinking, mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity, and tools from dialectical behavior therapy to manage strong emotions. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to notice patterns that started earlier in life.
Dr. Duffy helps people facing anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, addictions, and self-esteem struggles. She also supports those coping with grief, career stress, parenting strain, eating and sleep issues, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Additional interests include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, and working with people who take part in BDSM, kink, or alternative sex culture.
Her background includes a Doctor of Clinical Psychology degree (Psy.D) from George Washington University and a Postdoctoral Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology from the California School of Professional Psychology. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Bureau of Study Counsel and has worked in inpatient settings, university clinics, and independent practice.
In sessions she offers a warm, interactive, and collaborative style. She will map practical steps you can use between meetings, such as sleep and exercise habits, ways to manage media consumption, and focused strategies for attention and academic or work tasks. People often come for help with confidence, focus, and coping with life changes.
Her sessions focus on skills that make day-to-day life easier. That can include strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy for unhelpful thinking, mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity, and tools from dialectical behavior therapy to manage strong emotions. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to notice patterns that started earlier in life.
Dr. Duffy helps people facing anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, addictions, and self-esteem struggles. She also supports those coping with grief, career stress, parenting strain, eating and sleep issues, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Additional interests include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, and working with people who take part in BDSM, kink, or alternative sex culture.
Her background includes a Doctor of Clinical Psychology degree (Psy.D) from George Washington University and a Postdoctoral Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology from the California School of Professional Psychology. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Bureau of Study Counsel and has worked in inpatient settings, university clinics, and independent practice.
In sessions she offers a warm, interactive, and collaborative style. She will map practical steps you can use between meetings, such as sleep and exercise habits, ways to manage media consumption, and focused strategies for attention and academic or work tasks. People often come for help with confidence, focus, and coping with life changes.