Kerline Alexis
Supportive family-focused counseling
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kerline
Kerline Alexis is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, and relationship issues. She brings six years of clinical experience and a practical, supportive style for people facing depression, trauma, anger, or struggles with self-esteem. She speaks English and works from New York, and she also offers services to international clients.
Her approach is warm and interactive. Sessions aim to feel respectful and nonjudgmental while focusing on what matters most to the family or individual.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and goal-oriented so people leave with tools they can use between sessions. Kerline blends psychodynamic ideas with cognitive behavioral techniques. That means she pays attention to patterns from the past while also teaching skills to change thoughts and behaviors now.
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing when those methods fit the issue. She has experience across mental health, learning disabilities, chronic illness, and life stage concerns from childhood into adulthood. This background helps when problems involve caregiving, communication, attachment, or adjusting to major life changes.
In sessions she helps people build coping strategies, clarify goals, and work through painful experiences. The work is collaborative: the therapist and client identify steps that feel manageable and realistic. Her focus is on improving daily functioning, relationships, and overall well-being.
How Kerline Uses Therapy Methods Online
Kerline commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so clients feel heard and respected; it helps people explore feelings and make their own decisions. Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Then she suggests methods and adapts them with the client so the plan fits real life and feels manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or caregiving. They also let people continue work when travel or schedule changes would otherwise interrupt progress. Practically, that means clients can use whatever connection works best and adjust how they communicate as therapy moves forward.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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