Alexa Joy Bergeron, MA, LPC
I believe that people are incredibly resilient and that therapy can be a powerful place to reconnect with your own clarity, strength, and sense of self.
Many of the people I work with are high-functioning on the outside, but internally feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in patterns they’re ready to change. You might be the one others rely on, the cycle-breaker in your family, or someone trying to show up differently—for yourself, your relationships, or your children.
This work is deeply personal for me. I grew up in a family impacted by mental health challenges, and much of my own healing journey has been about breaking those patterns and creating something different for the next generation. I don’t approach this work from a place of having it all figured out—but from lived experience, ongoing growth, and a genuine understanding of how hard, and gratifying, this process can be. I’m also a mother of two, and I understand firsthand the complexity of being a working mom and a conscious parent, holding the demands of daily life while trying to be intentional about how you show up for your children. My work in maternal mental health and parent coaching is rooted not only in my clinical training, but in the real, lived experience of this season of life.
A few things about me—outside the therapy room:
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I’m a mom of two, and I understand the beauty, chaos, and mental load of daily life with kids
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I care deeply about breaking cycles and raising the next generation with more awareness and intentional value
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I love slow mornings, quality family time, kitchen dance parties, trail running, dancing, laughing, reading, spending time with dear friends and anything that helps me feel grounded, present and connected to my community.
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I believe healing isn’t about perfection—it’s about becoming more honest, compassionate, and connected to yourself.
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I'm just as committed to my own growth as I am to the work I do with clients
I see therapy as a space where all parts of you are welcome. The anxiety, the self-doubt, the overthinking, the protective patterns—none of it is random or broken. These are often adaptations that made sense at one point in your life. Together, you and l will work together to understand those patterns with curiosity and compassion, while gently creating space for something new.
My approach integrates:
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
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Internal Family Systems (IFS)
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Somatic (body-based) psychotherapy
These modalities allow me to go beyond insight alone and support real, lasting change—helping you feel different, not just think differently.
I have a Masters of Arts in Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University, and have pursued additional training in trauma-informed, body-centered therapeutic modalities, including:
ABOUT
EMDR
EMDR is an evidenced-based, trauma-informed psychotherapy that helps people process and heal from traumatic life events and distressing life experiences. EMDR therapy is widely recognized as an effective treatment for symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) resulting from physical, sexual or emotional abuse; war; accidents, as well as additional life disturbing events, including phobias, panic attacks, complicated grief, eating disorders, addiction, codependency, anxiety, and depression.
EMDR therapy is a phase-oriented treatment, which involves: preparation, strengthening resources, and symptom reduction; desensitization and trauma processing; and integration and future implementation. We will use bilateral stimulation, which is facilitated through either visual, tactile, or audio stimuli, to both strengthen positive states and lessen the intensity of challenging states. Through this process, many clients report that the emotional distress associated with the original trauma or stressor is eliminated or significantly decreased, which gradually increases the potential for long-term psychological, emotional, and behavioral change.
IFS is a non-pathologizing, evidenced-based, and trauma-informed approach to psychotherapy based on the belief that within each person exists an internal community of parts, otherwise known as sub-personalities. The internal community typically consists of vulnerable parts, which may be holding painful feelings like grief and shame, and protective parts that developed to help manage your inner experience of the outside world. From an IFS perspective, every part of you, even the most self-destructive part, is here for a purpose and, in it’s essence, is trying to help you.
Another core component of IFS is the concept of the Self. Richard Schwartz, the founder of IFS, explains, “Everyone is at their core a Self containing many crucial leadership qualities such as perspective, confidence, compassion and acceptance. Everyone has this healthy and healing Self despite the fact that many people initially have very little access to it. The goal of IFS is to differentiate this Self from the parts, thereby releasing its resources...to help the parts out of their extreme roles.”
Parts of you formed to help you survive. Thriving comes from recognizing those inner strengths and relating to your experience with curiosity, compassion, and acceptance. You don’t need to eliminate any part of yourself to grow. When you change how you relate to it—meeting it with understanding—it can transform on its own. In doing so, you free the parts of you stuck in the past and open new ways of being in the present.
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IFS
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SPI
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SPI) is a body-centered therapy that draws from modern neuroscience, attachment theory and cognitive therapies. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is utilized in the treatment of various types of trauma, including:
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A single, traumatic incident that resulted in persistent symptoms of distress in everyday life
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Developmental trauma, or multiple and ongoing traumatic events throughout childhood and adolescence that may still currently interfere with optimal psychological and emotional wellbeing
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Attachment trauma, or symptoms of trauma birthed from childhood neglect, abandonment, and/or abuse
SPI is a phase-oriented treatment, which includes: symptom reduction and stabilization, trauma processing, and transformation and integration on level of mind, body, and spirit. This therapy draws on awareness of the physical body as a resource to both strengthen supportive internal states and also process painful or traumatic states still interfering with your daily life.
