Kerline Alexis, LMHC

Kerline Alexis is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, and trauma-related issues. She also supports people facing sleep or eating problems, career transitions, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.

Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions are respectful and nonjudgmental, with an emphasis on listening first. She aims to help clients build skills they can use between sessions. Kerline draws on practical tools and real conversations rather than abstract theory.

Kerline uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered methods, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas alongside motivational interviewing and psychodynamic perspectives. She mixes short-term problem solving with attention to patterns that have developed over time. This allows work on immediate symptoms while also looking at deeper personal themes.

Clients can expect clear goals, structured skill practice, and space to reflect. Kerline emphasizes coping strategies for day-to-day life, like stress management, emotion regulation, and communication skills. She also supports people through major life changes and caregiving stressors.

Her background includes six years of professional experience in mental health work and earlier roles supporting people with learning differences and chronic illness. Kerline welcomes people from diverse cultural backgrounds and offers sessions in English, including to international clients.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Kerline commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, which helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and stress. Client-centered therapy prioritizes the person’s own goals and pace, offering steady support and respect while people talk through difficult feelings.

She also draws on elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. DBT ideas teach concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication, which can be useful for anger, relationship challenges, and impulsivity.

Choosing an approach is collaborative. During the first sessions she will listen to concerns, discuss goals, and suggest which methods may fit best. Together the client and therapist adjust techniques over time so the work matches real-life needs and preferences.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a busy day and to practice skills between sessions. These options help people access care from different time zones and daily routines.