Alexa Alphonsus
Intern Counsellor
Grief, general counselling
M Counselling & Psychotherapy (cand), B Theology
Alexa is an Intern Counsellor with experience in pastoral care and crisis support. She is passionate about helping clients navigate life’s challenges. Alexa’s background includes customer service and her personal experience adjusting to a new culture, grief, and long-distance relationships. This allows her to understand cultural dynamics and faith-based issues.
Areas of Counselling Practice
- Mental stress
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief and loss counselling
- Depression
- Relationship counselling
- Boundary & communication issues
- Life transitions
- Childhood issues & abandonment
- Attachment & family of origin issues
- Growth and self development
- Faith-related therapy upon request
Professional Experience
As a growing counsellor, Alexa is experienced in pastoral care and counselling support through her local church. Alexa has provided care and a listening ear to individuals in stressful situations navigating many of life’s challenges. Coming from a background of customer service, Alexa is well inclined to service clients with the best of her skills, hoping to work together with the client to recover, grow and learn.
Alexa grew up in Malaysia and moved here at 18, she is well acquainted with culture shock and adjusting herself, learning to deal with grief and long distance relationships. Alexa has collaborated with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and is able to understand cultural dynamic differences and differing family systems and expectations. Alexa has experience counselling people through church hurt and faith based dilemmas and is able to combine theology, pastoral care and counselling.
Professional Memberships
Student member of ACA
Counselling Style
- Warm and empathic
- Individual counselling
- Group therapy
- Emotionally Focused Therapy
- Psychotherapy
- Attachment based therapy
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