Dr. Alexandra Duffy

Dr. Alexandra Duffy is a clinical psychologist with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, self-esteem concerns, bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD, addictions, and a wide range of relationship, family, and life transition issues. She also supports clients facing grief, intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping disorders, parenting and career challenges, coping with change, and professional burnout such as compassion fatigue.

She works with students and their parents on learning-related concerns including dyslexia, ADHD, learning disabilities, and executive functioning challenges like time management, procrastination, organization, and emotional regulation. Dr. Duffy conducts evaluations for ADHD, dyslexia, and learning disabilities to clarify diagnoses, improve daily functioning, and provide documentation for academic and test accommodations.

Her approach is warm, interactive, and collaborative, tailoring treatment to each person’s background and prior experience with therapy. She draws from psychodynamic perspectives alongside evidence-based methods such as cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and mindfulness-informed techniques. In sessions she often integrates practical lifestyle strategies that target sleep habits, physical activity, and eating patterns, and she helps clients find a healthier balance with electronic media to reduce worry and overwhelm.

Dr. Duffy earned a Doctor of Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) from George Washington University and completed a Postdoctoral Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology at the California School of Professional Psychology. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Bureau of Study Counsel. Her clinical background includes work in inpatient and residential settings, private practice, and roles as a staff psychologist at UCLA and at the Georgetown University Law Center.

She holds psychologist licenses in California and North Carolina (state registrations CA 20193 and NC 3202) and is also licensed to practice in Massachusetts and Washington. Based in North Carolina, Dr. Duffy offers therapy and coaching to individuals seeking skills for attention regulation, identity development, mastery over perfectionism, and strategies to enhance academic or professional performance. She has led workshops and groups focused on self-esteem, anxiety reduction, public speaking, and concentration skills, and she enjoys working with actors and creative professionals to foster self-awareness, manage rejection and criticism, and use relaxation techniques within the creative process.