Alexandra Ainge Cottle, LCMHC, LPC

Alexandra Ainge Cottle is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who brings more than a decade of experience to individual and family therapy. She maintains a private practice in South Jordan, Utah, and has built a career focused on supporting adolescents, parents, and families through a wide range of life challenges. Alexandra earned a Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Utah, with an emphasis on cognitive behavioral and multicultural counseling. Her credentials include LCMHC and LPC - LCMHC denotes a licensed clinical mental health counselor and LPC denotes a licensed professional counselor.

Earlier in her career she worked as a school counselor and has volunteered in schools, homeless shelters, and community organizations, developing deep experience with youth and family systems. In private practice she has helped hundreds of individuals, couples, and families address conflict, cope with trauma, and work through grief, stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting issues, and other mental health struggles. Her clinical approach is integrative, drawing from cognitive behavioral methods, rational emotive behavior therapy, family systems theory, and other techniques to design treatment plans tailored to each client’s needs.

Clients can expect a counseling environment characterized by empathy, compassion, and a sense of humor, where trust and the therapeutic relationship are valued. Alexandra also brings experience presenting and training groups on topics such as effective parenting, self-esteem, anger management, marriage, sex education, self-harm, and grief. She describes her work as guided by personal experience with trauma, loss, and change and a continued commitment to supporting others toward greater peace and resilience.