Rev. Alexander Yoo
Meaning-focused therapist and coach
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Alexander
Rev. Alexander Yoo is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on practical help for people facing major life questions and stress. He speaks plainly and offers options - sometimes listening, sometimes giving direct feedback - based on what a person needs in the moment.
This profile centers on family and parenting concerns among many other life issues he addresses. He brings 26 years of experience and a background that includes ordained ministry and hospice chaplaincy.
Background and approach
Alexander favors a change-oriented, meaning-focused approach. He asks questions that point to values and purpose while also working on concrete steps people can take. Sessions can move between coaching-style guidance and deeper therapeutic work depending on the day and the client’s goals.
He uses methods such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Jungian ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and existential thinking. That mix is used to help with trauma, grief, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, and other concerns listed in his profile. Alexander is based in California and holds the LMFT credential - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
His training as an ordained clergyperson and as a hospice chaplain informs how he talks about meaning, belief, and end-of-life concerns when clients want that included. Sessions are offered in English in several online formats. He aims to help people find clarity, relief, and practical next steps.
People who want a therapist who balances big-picture meaning with action-oriented work may find his style fits their needs.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Rev. Alexander Yoo uses EMDR to address trauma by pairing focused memory work with guided eye movements or bilateral stimulation, which can help reduce distress tied to traumatic memories. He also draws on existential therapy to help people talk through life’s big questions - meaning, purpose, and values - and decide what matters most in their daily choices. Jungian ideas are sometimes used to look at personal stories, symbols, and patterns that recur over time and shape behavior.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to see what fits their goals and comfort level. That might mean starting with mindfulness or motivational interviewing to build momentum, then shifting to deeper EMDR or existential conversations later on.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for parents and professionals who need different ways to connect. Video calls let people read facial cues and body language, while chat and messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. The variety makes it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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