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Cora Benedict, LMFT

  • Experience15 years
  • LocationAlaska
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesClient-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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About Cora

Cora Benedict is an LMFT with 15 years of clinical experience who centers her work in client-centered, trauma-informed care. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and emotion-focused methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.

Background and approach

Cora emphasizes practical skills for coping with life changes, sleep and eating concerns, anger, and self-esteem struggles while attending to career challenges and compassion fatigue. Her practice integrates elements of dialectical behavior therapy and existential reflection to support deeper emotional processing and decision making.

Cora works with clients facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, addiction concerns, and family-of-origin issues, tailoring interventions to each person’s situation. She frames therapy as a collaborative process that prioritizes understanding strengths, improving communication, and building resilience.

Based in Alaska, Cora blends clinical rigor with an empathetic, growth-focused stance. Her sessions aim to help clients move toward sustainable change through coaching-informed techniques, forgiveness work, and support for complex grief or end-of-life concerns.

She communicates plainly about goals and progress, adapting methods to match each client’s needs and preferences.

Putting evidence-based approaches into online practice

Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy, active listening, and tailoring sessions around each person’s priorities; it helps people feel heard and supported while working toward their goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and many stress-related problems. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be particularly helpful for managing anger, intense emotions, and coping during crises.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work together. Cora treats method selection as collaborative, exploring a client’s concerns, goals, and preferences to choose or combine techniques that fit the situation. She regularly adapts strategies over time so the approach evolves with progress and changing needs.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and accessibility for people in Alaska and beyond. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, reinforce skills between sessions, and maintain continuity of care when life circumstances change. Licensed professionals can use these modalities to deliver structured, skills-based work as well as reflective, emotion-focused therapy depending on what the client needs.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Cora commonly address?
Cora works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, depression, and ADHD as listed in her specialties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach blends client-centered care with techniques from CBT, DBT, EFT, and existential therapy to balance practical skill-building with deeper emotional exploration.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 15 years of experience working with people across a variety of emotional and life challenges, bringing that background into each therapeutic relationship.
Where is she licensed and located?
Cora holds the credential LMFT and is documented with AK LMFT 188486; she practices in Alaska.
Does she offer services in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Clients can work with Cora through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How are fees handled for therapy with her?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What should someone do to start working with Cora?
To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseGriefParenting issues

Also works with

Eating disordersSleeping disordersAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesDepressionCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCo-morbidityCodependencyCommunication problemsDrug and alcohol addictionFamily of origin issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHearing impairedHIV / AIDSHospice and end-of-life counselingLife purposeMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersPanic disorder and panic attacksPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSmoking / vaping cessationSomatizationTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issuesWorkplace issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

15+ years

Licensed

Alaska

Languages

English

What Cora can help with

Cora Benedict works with clients on stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, and parenting issues.

Cora works with clients navigating stress, anxiety, trauma, and grief.

How Cora approaches therapy

Cora's clinical approaches include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, and Internal Family Systems.

Experience and training

Cora is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Alaska, with 15 years of clinical experience.