Alexa Sorensen, LMSW

Alexa Sorensen is a Michigan-based licensed social worker (LMSW) who offers an empathetic, person-first approach. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship challenges, and LGBTQ and gender concerns. Alexa aims to meet people where they are and adjust conversations to fit each person's needs. Taking the first step can be hard, and she acknowledges the courage that requires.

With 13 years of professional experience, Alexa adapts evidence-informed methods to the client’s situation. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and on acceptance strategies to reduce struggle with painful feelings. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship patterns and intimacy-related concerns.

Clients can expect practical skills mixed with open listening. Sessions often include identifying immediate coping steps, trying out new communication moves, and setting small behavior goals that build confidence. She also supports people dealing with career shifts, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and caregiver stress.

Alexa lists aging and geriatric issues among her additional focus areas, and she helps people navigate life changes tied to aging and caregiving. She also works with people facing trauma, abuse, addiction-adjacent concerns such as codependency, and alternative sexual culture topics like BDSM and kink.

Therapy is collaborative and paced to the person’s comfort. Alexa encourages questions about how her approaches might fit a client’s goals, and she welcomes inquiries from people who want a practical, respectful way to work through life’s harder moments.

How her therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then commit to actions that reflect their values. This can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to reduce unhelpful patterns and teach concrete coping skills for stress and mood problems. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how past relationship patterns shape current interactions and supports building healthier ways of relating and connecting, which is useful for intimacy and communication issues.

Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, what has or hasn’t helped before, and preferences for practical exercises versus reflective work. Together they will try methods and adjust as needed to find what helps most.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow for shorter check-ins around work or caregiving, and support using written exercises or worksheets between meetings. Licensed professionals can tailor pacing and tasks so therapy fits daily routines without promising a particular session type.