Alex Palacio, AMFT

In-Person & Virtual
$180 per session

Specialties

• Couples support, including LGBTQ+, interracial, open/poly, and sex-positive relationships
• LGBTQ+ identity exploration and transitioning—showing up as yourself with more confidence and ease
• Family, cultural, and community dynamics for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ clients—belonging, boundaries, and self-esteem
• Anxiety and depression, building coping tools and steadiness day-to-day
• Boundaries, communication, and relationship patterns that keep repeating
• Body positivity and strengthening your relationship with yourself
• Healing from religious trauma, deconstruction, and the impact of high-demand groups

Warm, Easygoing, Non-Judgmental, Insightful, Encouraging

I work best with clients who feel like they’ve spent a long time performing in order to be accepted, avoid conflict, or maybe just to fit in.

Therapy should be the space where you can stop editing yourself and finally exhale. Together we’ll explore the parts of your story that taught you to shrink or edit yourself and we will practice new ways of showing up that feel more honest, steady, and true to you. Over time, my hope is that you feel more grounded and confident—clearer about what you need and freer to live in a way that actually fits.

I’m easy-going by nature, and I’ll meet you with warmth and respect while we work toward the changes you want. My priority is creating a space that feels safe, welcoming, and genuinely supportive. I take an eclectic approach to therapy, which means I’ll tailor our work to you. I tend to draw from person-centered, CBT, DBT, and narrative approaches to support both insight and practical coping tools.

Clients often describe me as a good listener, easy to talk to, calming, and insightful. My goal is for you to leave therapy with greater clarity, confidence, and a stronger connection to yourself.