Alexis Cutchin

Anxiety, Trauma, Attachment & Athletes

Alexis works with children, adolescents, adults, families, and athletes, with particular interests in anxiety, adjustment, trauma, attachment, relationships, and the pressures that can come with competitive sports. Her approach is warm, steady, and collaborative, grounded in the belief that meaningful change begins when people feel safe enough to be honest about what they are actually experiencing.

Alexis understands that people do not always come to therapy with a clear explanation for why they are struggling. Sometimes it looks like anxiety, depression, conflict, grief, difficulty adjusting to change, or simply feeling stuck. Her goal is to help clients look beneath those experiences, better understand the patterns influencing them, and begin developing healthier ways to cope, connect, and move forward.

She has experience working with juvenile justice-involved adolescents, including individual counseling, family work, treatment planning, and psychoeducational groups focused on healthy relationships, responsibility, empathy, and social development. That experience strengthened her ability to work with young people whose behavior may be telling a larger story and reinforced her interest in attachment, family systems, and trauma-informed care.

Alexis also enjoys working with athletes navigating anxiety, pressure, confidence, expectations, identity, and the emotional demands of competitive sports. For some athletes, the challenge is performance anxiety. For others, it may be fear of failure, perfectionism, injury, pressure from coaches or family, balancing athletics with the rest of life, or feeling as though their worth has become tied to how they perform. Alexis helps clients separate who they are from what they achieve while building practical skills for managing pressure and responding to setbacks.

Her clinical style is client-centered, strength-based, attachment-informed, and trauma-informed. Alexis does not believe therapy should be a therapist handing out instructions. Instead, she views it as a partnership—looking together at what may be keeping someone stuck and identifying changes that feel both realistic and meaningful.

Alexis believes people deserve a space where they can be honest without being judged, challenged without being shamed, and supported while learning to trust themselves more fully.

Her goal is to help clients leave therapy with greater understanding, stronger coping skills, healthier relationships, and more confidence in their ability to handle what comes next.

Alexis has completed her graduate training and is currently awaiting issuance of her Associate Licensed Counselor (ALC) license through the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling. Upon licensure, she will practice under the supervision of Hallie Keel, LPC-S, RPT-S.