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Alexandria Medina

Alexandria Medina, LMFT

Delaware

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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - Relationships and Shame

  • Systemic perspective
  • Couples communication
  • Attachment work

About Alexandria

Alexandria Medina is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Delaware with seven years of clinical experience. She works with stress, anxiety, LGBT concerns, relationship and family matters, and intimacy-related issues. People who feel stuck by guilt or shame related to relationships, family history, or identity will find that these areas are part of her focus.

Alex frames difficulties systemically, looking beyond single incidents to the patterns that keep problems repeating. She talks through how interactions, roles, and past experiences shape current reactions. Sessions are practical and direct; clients look at how day-to-day behaviors and expectations feed conflict or self-criticism.

Alex has particular experience with couples who face repeated arguments, communication breakdowns, or disconnection. She helps partners identify the cycles that escalate tension and practices ways to shift those patterns in real interactions. Her work also includes helping individuals sort attachment wounds, abandonment fears, and family of origin issues that hang on to shame.

Her background mentions work with neurofeedback and neuromodulation alongside relational therapy. That combination informs how she considers both emotional experience and bodily responses when addressing anxiety, dissociation, or intense shame states. She integrates these perspectives without centering any single technique.

Sessions are collaborative and can include straightforward challenges about long-held beliefs and behaviors. For someone weighed down by guilt, she helps clarify how past events, ongoing relationships, and present choices fit together, and then practices different ways of responding in everyday life.

Approaches used and how online sessions fit

Alex uses a systemic approach that examines how relationships and patterns keep guilt and shame active. This looks at who says and does what in recurring conflicts and helps identify concrete shifts to interrupt those cycles.

She also draws on work that attends to emotional and physiological responses, informed by experience with neurofeedback and neuromodulation. That perspective links body-based reactions like dissociation or high anxiety with how people respond in relationships and during stressful moments.

Finding the right fit is part of the work. She will help a client figure out which approaches make sense based on their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust methods as the work progresses in a collaborative way.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find online sessions help fit therapy into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Online work can make practicing communication skills between partners or trying brief, focused exercises easier to schedule while juggling everyday responsibilities.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyLGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issues

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAttachment issuesBDSM, kink, and alternative sex cultureBlended family issuesCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDependent personalityDissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMulticultural concernsPanic disorder and panic attacksPhobiasPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Experience

7+ years

Listed in

Delaware

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of guilt or shame does she work with?

She focuses on guilt and shame that arise from relationship issues, family of origin experiences, and intimacy or identity concerns.

How does she approach guilt and shame in sessions?

She uses a systemic lens to look at patterns and interactions that keep feelings stuck and practices concrete changes in communication and behavior.

What is her clinical experience?

She has seven years of experience working with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, and related concerns.

What credentials and location apply to her practice?

She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) licensed in Delaware and practices there.

Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?

Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.

What session formats are available?

Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.

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