Alexandra Pajak, LCSW

Alexandra Pajak is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She describes her style as supportive and direct, offering straightforward guidance and practical steps. Alexandra works from Georgia and speaks English.

She leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, using it to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change routines that keep problems going. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is another tool she uses to build emotion regulation and coping skills. Alexandra also incorporates mindfulness and elements of Jungian and motivational approaches when they suit a person’s needs.

Sessions focus on clear goals and practical skills. Conversations often include identifying patterns, trying small experiments between sessions, and practicing new ways of coping. She aims to make therapy feel productive and understandable.

Alexandra has supported people through grief, anxiety, depression, substance use concerns, and personality and eating issues. She also helps with relationship challenges, parenting stress, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, and managing major life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment, trauma and dissociation, body image, codependency, and alternative sex culture concerns.

Her training includes social work degrees from the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech and she holds LCSW credentials in North Dakota and Maine as listed. People who prefer a direct, skills-based approach may find her style a good fit.

How Alexandra’s Approaches Work Online

Alexandra commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change small daily habits that worsen mood or anxiety. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals and daily life. That means trying methods, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.

Online sessions can make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people read nonverbal cues and do deeper work. Phone sessions or live chat can be easier on low-bandwidth days or when a shorter check-in fits a busy schedule. Text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching, brief skill reminders, and quick progress notes between sessions.