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Alexandra “Lexie”
Mueller,
MA, LCMHC-A
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate. Depression, grief, and anxiety in adults 18 and up.
You don’t have to keep handling it on your own.
Depression
Anxiety disorders
Grief and traumatic loss
Military families
Life transitions
Currently accepting new clients. Book online, email info@allorarise.com, or call or text the office at 910-408-2302.
Maybe you’re the one who still looks okay. You show up, answer the texts, keep things moving, replay conversations at night, and can’t explain why you feel so alone doing it. Or maybe it stopped being invisible a while ago, the sleep, the appetite, the interest in things you used to love, and people are starting to notice.
These things rarely stay put. What starts subtle has a way of gradually reshaping how you move through a day. Therapy helps at any point along that line, early, late, or years in, and you don’t need to have worked out what any of it means before you book. Working that out is the point of going.
Alexandra Mueller, who goes by Lexie, is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate at Allora Rise Counseling and Therapy, seeing adults 18 and up at the practice’s Cargo District office in Wilmington and by telehealth throughout North Carolina. Her clients are often young adults going through a change such as parenthood, college, or a loss, and people ready to process trauma from earlier experiences. First calls usually sound like wanting to work through old feelings, manage stress in a particular season, or finally say some things out loud to find a sense of balance.
She works most often with three things.
Depression
It doesn’t always look the way people expect. You may seem “okay” to everyone around you while feeling numb, exhausted, or disconnected, or lonely while surrounded by people you love. Often it starts subtle, withdrawing, losing interest, sleeping poorly, concentrating less, and gradually reshapes how you function day to day. Lexie works with it using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, looking at the patterns of thought and action keeping it in place rather than only talking about how it feels.
Grief and traumatic loss
A death, a divorce, a friendship that changed, a job that ended, or a future you had planned on that isn’t coming. Grief doesn’t follow a predictable pattern, and Lexie doesn’t expect it to: the ups and downs, the anger and guilt alongside the sadness, the sense of moving through life without being fully present. She works with grief in adults, including when it shows up as withdrawal, difficulty finding meaning, or a strong sense of emptiness.
Anxiety disorders
For you this may look like overthinking, avoiding, putting things off, keeping everyone happy, and asking for reassurance you already have, alongside the physical end of it: racing heart, tight chest, sweating hands, no sleep. Lexie treats all of it as one thing rather than separate problems.
Beyond those three, Lexie also works with panic and social anxiety, OCD, perfectionism and high-functioning anxiety, burnout and chronic stress, trauma and PTSD including childhood and sexual trauma, ADHD, life transitions, family conflict, and divorce and separation, and she also incorporates faith into the work depending on the client.
Lexie has particular depth with three communities. College students, from her internship work. Military service members and families, as an active duty military spouse who has lived through long distance, deployments, time away from family, and relocating every few years. And high-achieving students and athletes, as a competitive athlete who understands operating under pressure while trying to keep a life and relationships intact alongside it.
Clients describe Lexie as warm, challenging, and structured, and she tends to work through activities and exercises alongside you rather than assigning them.
She’s trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), somatic and nervous system approaches, and motivational interviewing, with experience in play therapy. CBT is her most used approach, particularly for clients caught in a loop of thought and action who need practical tools. She reaches for ACT when someone is wrestling their own internal experience so hard they’re no longer present in their life, working from the idea that we observe our thoughts rather than consist of them. She uses DBT when emotions are overwhelming and black and white thinking has taken over, built around the principle that two things can be true at once.
In the first weeks she works on the nervous system first, with box breathing, mindfulness, or movement, then sets a practical goal to check against. She’s selective about self-disclosure but open where it helps: she was adopted after time in foster care, and she has been through a major trauma involving her husband’s near-fatal accident and the months of hospital care that followed.
Your first session
Lexie opens with a space that’s curious rather than clinical. She introduces herself, covers confidentiality and its limits, and asks open questions designed to make you comfortable before working through a structured intake together. By the end you’ll have set a SMART goal, deliberately small and adjustable, so there’s clarity about where this is going.
Whether Lexie is your fit
Lexie sees adults 18 and up, and while she works with anyone in that range, her practice leans toward women. She works one-to-one and with groups.
If that is what brought you here, a free fifteen-minute consultation with Lexie is the fastest way to know. If you’re carrying something else, email info@allorarise.com or call or text 910-408-2302, and we’ll point you to the therapist here who works with it.
PRACTICAL DETAILS
INSURANCE
Aetna
Blue Cross Blue Shield NC
SELF-PAY
Private pay accepted
Superbill provided on request for out-of-network
SEES
Individuals
Adults, 18 and up
WHERE
2202 Wrightsville Ave
Suite 111
Wilmington, NC 28403
Telehealth throughout North Carolina