About Alexandrea
Alexandrea "Ally" DeFelice is a licensed mental health counselor with 14 years of experience based in Massachusetts. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship struggles. Ally emphasizes practical steps and patient conversation to help people find steadier ground.
She approaches therapy believing people are the experts on their own story. Ally listens first, then helps clients identify strengths they already have. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with things to try between meetings when useful.
Background and approach
Ally uses methods drawn from attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral strategies to address patterns that cause pain. She also draws on client-centered and dialectical behavior ideas to support emotion regulation and clearer communication. When meaning and values feel uncertain, she brings in existential questions to help people clarify what matters to them.
Her work often covers concerns like abandonment, attachment struggles, communication problems, guilt, shame, and isolation. She also helps with panic, trauma-related reactions, mood problems, and issues tied to money or life purpose. Conversations aim to reduce overwhelm and build everyday coping skills.
Ally describes therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people set small, achievable goals and adjusts the approach as needs change. The tone in sessions tends to be warm, direct, and practical, with an emphasis on usable tools and clearer thinking.
How Ally’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape expectations of others and of oneself. Online sessions use talk and reflective exercises to spot patterns like fear of abandonment and help people try new ways of relating.Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping the client lead the pace of change. This approach fits well online because sessions prioritize whatever the person brings that day, and the therapist follows the client’s concerns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In remote sessions Ally can teach practical CBT skills such as thought tracking, behavioral experiments, and simple homework to test new ways of coping with anxiety or low mood.
Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the process. Ally collaborates with each person to decide which approaches match their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She adjusts tactics over time based on what helps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging works for ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people fit therapy into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English