Alexandra Bouvrette, LCSW

03/04/2025

Curiosity is the key!

12/12/2023

07/16/2023

Try to keep up hope and if it falters, ask for help... From a friend, neighbor, loved one, spiritual leaders, self help book or....a trusty therapist!

❤️🙏

04/08/2023

💛 credit: Mindful Enough

04/06/2023

Therapy is one of the best ways to help address trauma.

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03/23/2023

So true.

09/07/2022

The overwhelm of anxiety builds and builds — as one thought generates two more thoughts, four more spring from those. The mind proliferates, taking each feeling as fact and conjecturing another frightening scenario on that, and then another. If this, then that, and then this, and this, and this, and then we all die in a raging fire.

When I look at my own anxiety, I see it as unique. Many are made anxious by not knowing, but I am afraid of the things I believe to be certain. The plane is going to crash. My car is going to break down. Whether the anxiety comes from the certainty that we are right or the despair that nothing is going to ever work, we want to give this high energy a big space so it no longer bounces off the walls of the mind.

Start by taking a breath or two to ground yourself so that you can determine if the threat you feel is real or a conjecture from circumstances. Once you know that what you feel is anxiety, you can use lovingkindness, chanting, or a change in your surroundings to create space around your anxiety to reduce its power and return your mind and body to a balanced state where you can respond more skillfully to our sometimes frightening world.

08/22/2021

Winter sunset at the office

08/22/2021

A very interesting article about psychological depth and richness. This supports and fits well with psychotherapy and its goals. Check it out!

A new psychological study says that "psychological richness" can be one important dimension of a full life.

06/30/2020

Great explanation of current state of face to face visits. I'm keeping office closed through Sept at least for sake of better treatment and safety.

We're stuck with teletherapy for now because viral safety procedures undermine the psychological safety psychotherapy requires.

09/07/2016

Welcome
We bid you welcome, who come with weary spirit seeking rest. Who come with troubles that are too much with you. Who come hurt and afraid. We bid you welcome, who come with hope in your heart.…
Whoever you are, whatever you are, Wherever you are on your journey, We bid you welcome.
--Richard S. Gilbert

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I absolutely love this poem/quote. It completely captures what I hope to engender in my practice. Welcome.