About Alena
Alena Kaldunski is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by life. She focuses on helping clients manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief, and challenges related to ADHD in everyday life.
Her tone is collaborative - she treats each person as the expert on their own story and helps them build on their strengths. With six years of clinical experience, Alena blends education with gentle reframing to help clients see patterns differently.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth. She asks questions, offers new ways to think about problems, and practices skills with you during sessions. Her approach aims to make coping tools easy to use between meetings.
That might mean breaking big problems into small steps, adjusting routines, or trying simple exercises to reduce stress. Alena emphasizes practical strategies that fit into busy lives rather than lengthy theory discussions. She also pays attention to values and personal goals.
Conversations explore what matters most and how to align daily choices with those priorities. This helps people reshape habits and reduce conflict in relationships. Alena works with adults facing a range of concerns including depression, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood challenges, and life transitions.
Therapy sessions are offered in English and are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
How Alena’s Approaches Shape Online Sessions
Alena uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, teachable skills and gentle cognitive shifts. One approach emphasizes education about thoughts and behavior patterns, helping clients recognize unhelpful thinking and replace it with more workable alternatives; this is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress. Another approach centers on reframing - looking at problems from new angles to reduce shame and open up different choices; this helps with relationship conflicts, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist and client work together to identify goals, try methods, and adjust as needed. Alena treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps tailor strategies that fit daily routines and personal values.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills live. Phone sessions can be a good fit when someone needs a lower-bandwidth option or a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief reflections, ongoing coaching, or moment-to-moment support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or other commitments while still working with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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