Alex Blankenstein, LCMHC

Alex Blankenstein is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in Utah who brings ten years of clinical experience to work with teenagers and adults. He balances his professional life with roles as a devoted husband and father of three boys, ultra-endurance athlete, backcountry adventurer, aspiring carpenter, backyard 'chickeneer', Halloween enthusiast, and self-described mediocre comedian and oatmeal connoisseur. Those personal interests inform a practical, curious, and resilient approach to mental health care.

His own journey out of shame and self-doubt into values-driven confidence shapes his therapeutic perspective. He uses a structured process of clarifying values, strengthening self-regulation, and identifying and revising limiting beliefs to help people become unstuck from old stories and habits that no longer serve them. Alex works from a strengths-based, growth-oriented stance and often frames his work as coaching the mind toward greater agency and purpose.

Alex specializes in supporting individuals through stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and major life transitions. He also focuses on abandonment and attachment concerns, codependency, communication problems, emptiness, family and fatherhood issues, first responder stress, forgiveness, impulsivity, infidelity, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, men's issues, compulsive sexual behavior, self-led sexual health, and post-traumatic stress. He describes his role as a merchant of hope who helps people move beyond small narratives, face fear, and grow into a more empowered and integrated sense of self.