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title: Katherine Alexander, LPC
date: 2024-04-30T01:53:58Z
modified: 2026-10-16T01:01:43Z
permalink: "https://www.columbiapsychiatry-dc.com/team/katherine-alexander/"
type: team
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 5311
specialty:
  - Therapy
office:
  - Alexandria, VA
  - Columbia Psychiatry
modality_areas:
  - Art Therapy
  - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
  - Family Therapy
  - Group Therapy
  - Individual Counseling
  - Medication Management
  - Relationship Counseling
  - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
  - Trauma-Focused CBT
conditions:
  - Addiction & Substance Use
  - ADHD
  - Adoption
  - Anger Management & Impulse Disorders
  - Anxiety Disorders
  - Autism Spectrum Disorders
  - Behavioral Issues
  - Bipolar Disorder
  - Body Dysmorphia
  - Career Issues
  - Cultural (racial, ethnic) Identity Issues
  - Delusional Disorders
  - "Dementia & Alzheimer's"
  - Depression
  - Developmental Disorders
  - Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
  - Domestic Violence
  - Eating Disorders
  - Eating/Food Insecurities
  - Family Conflict
  - Gambling Addiction
  - Grief and Bereavement
  - Hoarding
  - Homelessness
  - Infertility or Pregnancy Loss
  - Intellectual Disabilities
  - Learning Disabilities
  - LGBTQI+ identity and/or stressors
  - "Men's Issues"
  - Military Lifestyle Issues
  - Personality Disorders
  - Pre/Post-Partum
  - Relationship Issues
  - Schizophrenic Disorders
  - School Issues
  - Self-Harming Behaviors
  - Sex Abuse Victims
  - Sexual Addictions
  - Sexual Disorders
  - Sexual Dysfunction
  - Sleep Disorders
  - Social Anxiety
  - Sports Psychology
  - Stress Management
  - Suicidality
  - Trauma
  - Traumatic Brain Injury
  - Weight loss/evaluation for bariatric surgery
  - "Women's Issues"
special_populations:
  - Co-Occurring Disorders
  - Disabilities – Developmental
  - Disabilities – Learning
  - Immigrant Populations
language:
  - "No"
featured_image: "https://www.columbiapsychiatry-dc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Katherine-Alexander-e1694796977622-1-1.jpg"
timestamp: 2026-10-16T01:01:43Z
tags:
  - Therapy
  - Alexandria, VA
  - Columbia Psychiatry
  - Art Therapy
  - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
  - Family Therapy
  - Group Therapy
  - Individual Counseling
  - Medication Management
  - Relationship Counseling
  - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
  - Trauma-Focused CBT
  - Addiction & Substance Use
  - ADHD
  - Adoption
  - Anger Management & Impulse Disorders
  - Anxiety Disorders
  - Autism Spectrum Disorders
  - Behavioral Issues
  - Bipolar Disorder
  - Body Dysmorphia
  - Career Issues
  - Cultural (racial, ethnic) Identity Issues
  - Delusional Disorders
  - "Dementia & Alzheimer's"
  - Depression
  - Developmental Disorders
  - Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
  - Domestic Violence
  - Eating Disorders
  - Eating/Food Insecurities
  - Family Conflict
  - Gambling Addiction
  - Grief and Bereavement
  - Hoarding
  - Homelessness
  - Infertility or Pregnancy Loss
  - Intellectual Disabilities
  - Learning Disabilities
  - LGBTQI+ identity and/or stressors
  - "Men's Issues"
  - Military Lifestyle Issues
  - Personality Disorders
  - Pre/Post-Partum
  - Relationship Issues
  - Schizophrenic Disorders
  - School Issues
  - Self-Harming Behaviors
  - Sex Abuse Victims
  - Sexual Addictions
  - Sexual Disorders
  - Sexual Dysfunction
  - Sleep Disorders
  - Social Anxiety
  - Sports Psychology
  - Stress Management
  - Suicidality
  - Trauma
  - Traumatic Brain Injury
  - Weight loss/evaluation for bariatric surgery
  - "Women's Issues"
  - Co-Occurring Disorders
  - Disabilities – Developmental
  - Disabilities – Learning
  - Immigrant Populations
  - "No"
---

## Licensed Professional Counselor

![](https://www.columbiapsychiatry-dc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Katherine-Alexander-e1694796977622-1-1.jpg)

I am Katherine Alexander, a provider at our [Alexandria clinic](https://www.columbiapsychiatry-dc.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/location/alexandria-va.md) who provides [therapy services](https://www.columbiapsychiatry-dc.com/psychiatric-care/mental-health-counseling-and-therapy/) in-person and via telehealth. I support clients in navigating their search for meaning, connection, clarity, and recovery. I have experience helping with challenges from chronic pain, mood and substance use problems, relationships, and integration of spiritual and religious challenges with mental health. I offer a trauma-informed balance of insight into personal issues along with a practical and solution-focused approach. Mindfulness, contemplative practices, humor, holistic, somatic and narrative therapies can all be part of treatment. I provide a nurturing space to help clients learn to increase self-compassion and self-acceptance on the road to achieving desired changes.

As an Expressive Arts Therapist, I use a developmental approach to gently explore and identify next steps towards a more satisfying life experience. Using the arts in multiple forms (with zero pressure to create anything pretty or perfect), I help clients to quiet the inner critic and express themselves when words fail.

Life gives us puzzles that can bring us pain when we try to rely on ourselves too much to solve them alone. Together, we can collaborate and continuously adjust your unique personal program for your values as you grow. As your counselor, I serve to encourage you towards becoming friends with all parts of yourself to a more sustainably fulfilling path.