Alexandra Woollacott

Alexandra is a relational psychotherapist and psychoanalytic candidate at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. She works with adults affected by relational trauma, depression, and anxiety, and those seeking support with emotional, interpersonal, and identity challenges, with a special interest in clients who identify as highly sensitive, empathic, and introverted.

Alexandra supports clients in their search for greater meaning, belonging, and agency in a world that is increasingly isolating and fragmented. Her relationships with clients begin from a place of connection and an appreciation for each person’s growing edges and potential. Guided by whatever is emerging, internally and interpersonally, she honors the collaborative, mutually affecting power of the therapeutic relationship, offering a rich exploration of past and present relationships that helps people understand themselves in context: strengthening their sense of self, building more fulfilling relationships, and finding more meaning in daily life.

Her theoretical grounding in psychoanalysis, humanism, feminist theory, and existential philosophy allows a sensitive exploration of the barriers to an authentic and fulfilling life. She brings a critical consciousness to the structures, systems, and cultural values that shape clients’ lives, identifying ways they can reclaim agency and dignity. And she is focused on making new meaning from lived experience, dark and light, believing that humans are shaped by joy and connection as well as pain, loss, and angst. Her clients find a warm, attuned, and sometimes playful environment in which they are not alone in navigating their losses, desires, ambitions, and struggles.

Alexandra sees clients via telehealth across Washington state, and is in-network with First Choice Health.