CEO · Owner · Coach
Alexandra Mackey, MA, LPC, CMNCS
Executive, leadership and emotional performance coach for high achievers nationwide. Over a decade of clinical training and expertise, now applied to forward-focused coaching. Advanced EMDRIA-trained, based in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Who
- Leaders, founders, athletes, parents & high achievers
- Where
- Phoenix office or Zoom, nationwide
- Format
- Private 1:1 sessions
- Investment
- From $250/hour, private pay
- First step
- Short application + strategy call
Alexandra works with people who are already capable and want to become even more grounded, effective and fulfilled, in their leadership, their relationships and their own skin.
A coach with a clinician's depth. Alexandra brings over a decade of clinical training and expertise, including clinical psychology. She is retired from practicing as a therapist, and today her work is coaching: forward-focused and action-oriented. She helps clients do the deeper work needed to move through blocks, form new beliefs and put real behavioral change into practice, with a clinician's understanding of what makes change last. As a Certified Mental Health Nutritionist and a certified yoga and breathwork instructor, she brings whole-person training to every engagement, helping clients build true self-mastery.
She is the CEO, owner and coach of Live Empowered Counseling & Coaching. Her clinical background spans community agencies and private practice, with over 10 years of clinical training, including advanced training in trauma therapy. She is an advanced EMDRIA-trained EMDR provider and recently helped an athlete recover from a traumatic event in three EMDR sessions.
Alexandra is also an entrepreneur who owns and co-owns businesses, including several six- and seven-figure companies. She knows firsthand what it takes to grow a company, lead a team and keep a family and a life intact along the way. That lived experience shapes her executive and business coaching.
Her coaching blends strategy with emotional performance: emotion regulation, nervous system capacity, breathwork and emotional intelligence. Clients learn to stay clear under pressure, lead with steadiness, deepen relationships with their partners and children, and build the capacity to handle more success.
Credentials & training
- Master of Arts (MA), clinical mental health counseling
- Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Arizona (retired from clinical practice)
- Certified Mental Health Nutritionist (CMNCS)
- Advanced EMDRIA-trained EMDR provider
- Certified Equine-Assisted Psychotherapist
- Certified yoga instructor, credentialed to teach breathwork
How Alexandra works with clients
Coaching (nationwide): leadership coaching, emotional performance coaching, parenting & relationship coaching and life coaching, virtual or in person in Phoenix.
Therapy (Arizona): EMDR therapy and EMDR intensives for trauma and performance-related trauma.
Beyond the office
Living what she teaches
Alexandra's coaching isn't theory. It's how she runs her own life.
Her personal business ownership portfolio includes eight businesses and growing. She also speaks and leads workshops for organizations and events on emotional intelligence, resilience and leadership. Learn about speaking & workshops. She is also a wife, a mother and a competitive adult amateur hunter/jumper equestrian who knows that composure under pressure is something you train, in the saddle and everywhere else.
She teaches health, wealth, balance and emotional regulation because she practices all four, and she shares that journey openly so clients can see what a full, high-capacity life looks like up close.
What sets this coaching apart
A coach with a clinician's depth
Alexandra is a coach. She is retired from practicing as a therapist, and her work today is about forward momentum: where you're going and what it will take to get there. What makes it different is the foundation underneath it.
Alexandra brings over a decade of clinical training and expertise, including study and training in clinical psychology. Years of direct work with clients gave her a deep understanding of human behavior: why we react the way we do under pressure, why the same patterns keep repeating, and what it actually takes for change to last.
She brings that skill set into coaching, not therapy. Sessions are active, goal-focused and built around measurable progress: qualitative results you can feel in your confidence, relationships and leadership, and quantitative results you can track in your performance, habits and goals. When something is in the way, she has the skill to go deep enough to move it, then turns that insight into action.
Whole-person training. Alongside her clinical background, Alexandra is a Certified Mental Health Nutritionist and a certified yoga and breathwork instructor. She works with the whole person (mind, body, nervous system and nutrition) to help you create real change, build self-mastery and master your life.
There are many talented coaches doing meaningful work. Alexandra's difference is the clinical depth she brings to a coaching relationship. Looking for traditional therapy instead? Our licensed therapist provides therapy for adults in Arizona.
The Live Empowered Method
Master your emotions. Master your life.
Every coaching engagement with Alexandra is built on three pillars. Most coaches work on strategy alone. This method starts with what's happening inside you, because that's what decides how you perform when it counts. The result is self-mastery: master your emotions, and you master your life.
Regulate
Regulate and rewire, so pressure sharpens you instead of hijacking you. Alexandra's framework is grounded in holistic psychology and draws on a wide range of techniques, including sports psychology, breathwork, custom visualization and integration work, so what you do in session carries into your daily life.
She views emotional performance through an athlete's lens: we are all athletes. Getting up and executing your day takes the same training, focus and recovery as playing the game at your best.
- Holistic psychology framework
- Sports psychology for everyday performance
- Breathwork & nervous system tools
- Custom visualization exercises
- Integration work between sessions
- Stress tolerance, recovery & burnout prevention
Lead
Lead yourself first, then your team, your business and your family, with clarity, presence and emotional intelligence.
- Executive presence
- Difficult conversations
- Leading at home
Expand
This is where you start playing with your capabilities. Together you build and execute strategy to test, expand and evolve how much you can handle and what you can hold: more responsibility, more visibility, more wealth, with your health and relationships intact.
The goal is capacity that keeps pace with the complexities of life, and with the person you are evolving into.
- Test & stretch your capabilities
- Strategy built & executed together
- Capacity for success
- Health, wealth & balance
- Growing into who you're becoming
Client words
What clients say
“Alex has helped me shape my life in ways I never thought possible.”
“Her empathy and thoughtful advice have made such a positive impact on my life.”
“She is passionate about her career and it shows when you speak with her.”
“Alexandra is such a professional and always provides authentic feedback and productive ideas in each session. She is amazing!”
“I like who I am becoming and I'm proud of her!”
“I appreciate what you have done for me, more than my words can describe. My gratitude is eternal.”
Free resources
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Free tools from Alexandra to help you regulate, recharge and enjoy your life more, starting now.
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Ready to expand what you can handle?
Coaching with Alexandra starts at $250/hour, with limited availability. Virtual nationwide or in person in Phoenix. Apply in about two minutes, and Alexandra will respond within a few hours.