Congruent Therapy: Alexandra Scott (she/her)

My Approach to Helping

Alexandra has a wide variety of clinical experience, including providing individual and family therapy to youth, adolescents, teens, young adults, and adults. Her clients have included LGBTQIA+, survivors of trauma, neglect, and abuse, survivors of DV, and people involved in the legal system. She aims to empower clients to build skills to more effectively communicate and problem-solve to achieve their goals. She specializes in helping clients process trauma, including religious trauma and the effect it has on us, as well as treating mood disorders. She uses an integrated, person-centered approach tailored uniquely to each client in order to support them in exploring whatever brought them to seek services. Alexandra utilizes a combination of a variety of approaches, including DBT, CBT, TF-CBT, ACT, MI, and EFT in her practice.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

Research shows that the therapeutic relationship is critical to the success of the therapy. In order to have a strong therapeutic relationship, she approaches her clients with unconditional positive regard, support, empathy, and models open and honest communication. She always aims for her clients to feel heard, validated, and understood. She is very open-minded and believes that we alone know what is best in our own lives, and it is important to do some self-discovery work to identify what we need in order to be fulfilled in life. She is here to explore whatever that looks like for her clients. She aims to empower her clients, build resiliency, heal from past experiences, and help them in building skills to utilize in their daily lives.