About Curllin
Dr. Curllin Alexis is a New York psychologist who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life changes. She has six years of experience and works with concerns such as grief, self-esteem, sleeping and eating difficulties, addiction, and ADHD.
Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at people who want practical ways to feel steadier day to day. She uses therapies that focus on values, thoughts, and connection to guide sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Clients can expect to talk through what matters most to them and practice skills between sessions. Her background blends approaches like cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance-based strategies, and attachment-focused work.
That mix is helpful for people dealing with impulsivity, communication problems, or compassion fatigue. She also addresses issues such as caregiver stress, workplace strain, and immigration-related concerns. Dr.
Alexis keeps sessions goal oriented while attending to emotional safety. She supports people coping with loss, workplace burnout, and intimacy-related struggles. The aim is clearer thinking, steadier routines, and more reliable ways to handle strong feelings.
Working with her typically means setting practical goals and learning tools to use outside sessions. People often leave with clearer steps for managing anxiety, improving sleep, or rebuilding self-worth. She offers services in English for people located in New York.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, low motivation, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it is a common choice for anxiety, depression, sleep, and impulsivity. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape expectations and reactions, which can help with intimacy, communication problems, and feelings of abandonment.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Alexis treats approach selection as a conversation. She will review your goals and preferences and try methods that fit your situation, adjusting plans as you make progress or try things that don’t feel helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video allows fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer no camera, chat or messaging supports short check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy practical and consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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