Therapist · Associate Professor · Two PhDs · Relationship Psychology Educator
Understand your patterns. Heal what you carry. Build relationships that feel safer, calmer, and more real.
Dr. Alyona Prikhidko brings together clinical therapy, academic research, teaching, and accessible psychological education to help individuals, couples, and families make sense of emotional patterns, attachment wounds, family dynamics, anxiety, trauma, and relationship pain.
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Choose the path that best matches what you need today.
Therapy
Anxiety, trauma, emotional regulation, self-worth, and family-of-origin healing.
Relationships
Attachment, conflict, family boundaries, emotional maturity, and commitment readiness.
Videos
Educational psychology insights on boundaries, attachment, family systems, and repair.
Background
Clinical training, academic work, research experience, teaching, and public education.
The patterns we can work through together
Therapy is not only about managing symptoms. It is also about understanding the deeper emotional logic underneath anxiety, conflict, attachment wounds, and the roles you learned to play in relationships.
Relationship readiness
Emotional maturity, family boundaries, repair, conflict patterns, and signs a relationship can grow.
Attachment safety
Anxious, avoidant, and fearful-avoidant patterns, including the push-pull cycles around closeness.
Family-of-origin wounds
Emotionally immature, narcissistic, or overwhelming family systems and the roles you learned to play.
Emotional boundaries
What belongs to you, what was handed to you, and how to care without becoming the container.
Trauma & self-worth
Nervous-system steadiness, emotional clarity, and a stronger relationship with yourself after stress.
Parenting & family systems
Communication, emotional development, and repair within families and intergenerational patterns.
Psychology explained clearly
The video library is organized into clear learning paths so visitors do not have to scan uneven individual cards.
Relationships
- Before You Marry Them
- Family boundaries
- Commitment readiness
Emotional boundaries
- Emotional containers
- Criticism and dumping
- What is yours vs. theirs
Family-of-origin healing
- Emotionally immature mothers
- Narcissistic family dynamics
- Reclaiming identity
A clinical and academic lens — with a deeply human approach
As a therapist and associate professor with two PhDs, Dr. Prikhidko integrates evidence-based clinical methods, research, teaching, and public education. Her work helps people understand hidden emotional dynamics without blame or shame — and build practical tools for change.
Her approach draws from DBT, CBT, ACT, family systems, play therapy, trauma-focused interventions, and relationship science.
You do not have to keep carrying what was never yours.
Whether you are seeking therapy, relationship support, or a deeper understanding of your emotional life, we can begin with a conversation.
Emotion Regulation Counseling LLC
Therapy, counseling, and emotional regulation support with Dr. Alena Prikhidko in Cooper City, Florida.
Contact
(352) 292-8544
alenaprikhidko@hushmail.com
11011 Sheridan Street, Suite 211
Cooper City, FL 33026
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