Alexandra De Castro Basto, LMFT
Compassionate, practical therapy for mood and family issues
About Alexandra
Alexandra De Castro Basto helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, or mood swings. She speaks English and Swedish and works from California as a licensed marriage and family therapist.
Background and approach
If you're nervous about starting, she keeps the first conversations simple and practical. Her approach is respectful and compassionate.
Sessions focus on what matters most to each person and on clear, doable next steps. She pays attention to family patterns, communication struggles, and issues like codependency or attachment that often affect day-to-day life.
Alexandra has 18 years of professional experience. That background includes supporting people through divorce and separation, drug and alcohol addiction concerns, and problems that come from family of origin dynamics.
She also works with guilt, shame, and the isolation that follows major life changes. In sessions she aims to build confidence and self-love while helping people manage symptoms of bipolar disorder and depression.
Conversations are tailored to each person's needs and pace, with practical tools and goal-focused dialogue. Therapy can feel hard at first.
Alexandra encourages small steps and honest talk. She helps people weigh options, try new ways of communicating, and use strategies that fit their daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online therapy options
Alexandra describes her work as grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clearer relationships. One common approach she uses helps people identify unhelpful patterns in thinking and behavior and replace them with manageable skills for coping with anxiety and depression. Another strand of her work looks at attachment and family patterns to improve communication and reduce recurring conflict in everyday life.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level, and she adjusts plans as progress and life circumstances change.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video works well when a deeper conversation is needed, phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat offers quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain continuity over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Swedish