Through secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth services, the practice removes geographic barriers. This allows clients across Texas to receive personalized mental health support from the comfort and privacy of their homes.

Founded by Alexandrea Long, MS, LCSW-S, the practice was created for individuals seeking more than surface-level coping strategies. It helps clients understand the deeper experiences, beliefs, emotional patterns, protective responses, and nervous system adaptations. These underlying factors heavily influence how individuals feel, relate to others, and move through the world today.

Alexandrea Long is an EMDR-trained, trauma-informed clinical therapist. Her work integrates clinical knowledge with nervous system healing, somatic awareness, parts work, mindfulness, emotional exploration, and psychospiritual understanding.

Her professional background also includes specialized training in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy preparation and integration. This reflects her strong interest in thoughtful, innovative, and nontraditional approaches to healing. These specialized areas are connected specifically to Alexandrea Long's clinical background. They are not presented as services offered by every clinician within the practice.

The trauma-informed therapy practice supports adolescents ages thirteen and older alongside adults seeking deep emotional healing. Its clinicians serve people across many stages of life, including students, professionals, parents, caregivers, and individuals navigating changes in their personal or professional identities.

Clients may come to therapy feeling disconnected from themselves, uncertain about their needs, or caught in patterns that shape how they relate to others and navigate daily life. Clinicians help them explore concerns such as low self-worth, people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, difficulty expressing emotions, challenges with communication, and a tendency to prioritize others at their own expense.

The work may also focus on strengthening confidence, developing a clearer sense of self, creating healthier relational patterns, and learning to approach personal needs with greater awareness and compassion.

Clinicians actively assist high-functioning individuals who experience internal exhaustion, perfectionism, or persistent overthinking. They also address protective survival responses, emotional shutdown, self-criticism, and difficulty setting boundaries.

Care is affirming and culturally responsive for clients from diverse backgrounds. This includes dedicated support for BIPOC, neurodivergent individuals, veterans, and military families whose experiences have not always been fully understood within traditional mental health settings.

"Many of the patterns people struggle with today once developed as ways to survive, stay safe, feel accepted, or maintain connection," said Alexandrea Long, Founder and Clinical Director. "Our work is not about judging those patterns or asking, 'What is wrong with you?' We help clients compassionately explore what happened, what their mind and body learned from those experiences, and what they may need now in order to heal."

"At our practice, therapy is a collaborative and empowering process," Alexandrea Long continued. "We create space for clients to feel seen, heard, and deeply understood while helping them reconnect with their emotions, their bodies, their values, and the parts of themselves they may have learned to silence or abandon."

This compassionate and transformative approach has earned the respect of fellow mental health professionals. "Alexandrea Long is a compassionate, skilled therapist who creates a safe space for healing," shared Melanie McKinney, MSW, LMSW. "She combines warmth, insight, and directness to help clients break patterns and find clarity. Her expertise and care make a lasting impact—I highly trust her work."


An Integrative Approach to Emotional and Nervous System Healing

At the core of the practice is an integrative, trauma-informed, and evidence-based approach to mental health care. Rather than relying on a single therapeutic model, clinicians thoughtfully draw from different approaches based on each client’s needs, goals, experiences, culture, identity, and readiness for change. Modalities utilized across the team include:

● Parts Work, Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed therapy, and Gestalt therapy

● Psychodynamics (inner child work) and attachment-based relationship healing

● Somatic awareness and mind-body approaches

● Polyvagal-informed care and nervous system education

● Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)

● Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

● Mindfulness, grounding practices, and attachment-informed relational approaches

● Strengths-based, person-centered therapy and psychoeducation

This multimodal approach allows clinicians to address the whole person, not only symptoms, but also the mind, body, nervous system, personal history, relationships, identity, values, and lived experience.

Beyond traditional individual therapy, the practice provides a broad continuum of services designed to foster deep healing and growth. It offers clinical supervision and expert mentorship for LMSWs, interns, and emerging social work professionals developing their clinical skills and preparing for the next stage of their careers.

Additionally, the practice supports mental health awareness through community partnerships, workshops, and speaking engagements focused on trauma, emotional wellness, nervous system regulation, and whole-person healing.


About Live Consciously, PLLC

Live Consciously, PLLC is a virtual, trauma-informed mental health practice serving adolescents and adults throughout Texas. Led by Alexandrea Long, MS, LCSW-S, it combines clinical knowledge, emotional awareness, nervous system education, and integrative therapeutic approaches to help clients better understand themselves and create meaningful, lasting change.

The practice believes therapy can be a space where science and the deeper human experience meet, a place where clients can move beyond survival, reconnect with themselves, and begin to feel more grounded, empowered, and whole. By combining clinical depth with the accessibility of telehealth, it offers Texans a compassionate space to heal, grow, and come home to themselves.

To learn more, request an appointment, or explore available services, contact them today

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