Pam Alexandra, MFT

I am an experienced, caring therapist who focuses on your strengths, helping you to find answers from within. Since it is often difficult to make the decision to come into counseling, I assist you in identifying the changes you want to make in your life and support you through that process with respect and compassion. In a warm, nurturing environment, we focus on seeing new options, and finding internal strength and self-empowerment.

Individual Therapy: To help you develop the inner resources to establish more life-giving responses to life's challenges, old or new. Together we explore old patterns and create new ways to build self-esteem and empower you to act on new choices.

EMDR: To relieve emotional distress and anxiety and build internal resources using 11 years experience with this power therapy.

Couples Therapy: To help you create a common relationship vision and patterns that support it, while respecting the views of both partners. Peaceful conflict resolution and effective communication help you both feel heard and valued.

Career Counseling and Coaching: To find your ideal career and overcome career difficulties through coaching and career evaluation tools.bursed by their insurance provider.

Let me help you.

-Break Patterns
-Gain Self Esteem
-Create Loving Relationships
-Create Fulfilling Careers
-Heal Grief and Loss
-Heal trauma/abuse
-Discover Your Spirituality
-Empower Yourself
-Negotiate Life's Transitions
-Overcome anxiety and Depression

Education:
MBA, University of Puget Sound
Master's in Counseling Psychology, University for Humanistic Studies
Certified, not just trained, in EMDR

Specialties:
Addictions, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), Anger Management, Anxiety, Assertiveness Training, Attachment Therapy, Avoidant Personality, Career Stress and Changes, Clinical Depression, Communication Skills, Co-Dependency/Adult Children of Alcoholics, Couples/Relationships/Families, Crisis Intervention, Creative Solutions, Dissociative Disorders/MPD/Repressed, Divorce/Dissolution, Domestic Violence, Eating Disorders, EMDR, Ethnicity/Multi-Cultural Relationships, Gay/Lesbian Issues, Gender Identity Issues, Grief/Loss Terminally Ill, Issues of Abuse (Abused), Issues of Abuse (Trauma), Individual, Life Transitions, Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder, Phobias, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, Religious/Spiritual Orientation, Step/Blended Families, Self Esteem/Personal Growth, Stress, Trauma Response, Women's Issues, Working With Therapists

Theoretical Orientation:

Cognitive-Behavioral, Developmental/Depth, Family Systems, Humanistic/Existential, Other, e.g. NLP, EMDR, etc., Psychodynamic, Self Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology

Memberships:
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, EMDR International Association

Articles by Pam Alexandra:
Using EMDR to relieve distress and achieve peak performance