Alexa Adamo Valverde
Senior Director, Partnerships & Strategy; Clinical Mental Health Counselor
Alexa Adamo Valverde, MS, MA, LCMHC, LPC (she/her) is a seasoned nonprofit executive, mental health therapist, and social innovation strategist committed to fostering individual and community well-being within equitable and supportive systems. Her career is marked by a commitment to empowering trauma survivors and addressing systemic oppression through coordinated community responses.
As a trauma-informed, healing-centered psychotherapist, Alexa serves youth, families, and adults through neuro-narrative and neurosequential play therapies, incorporating somatic and mindfulness-based approaches. She has extensive training in trauma-focused therapies (CBT, DBT, Narrative Exposure Therapy), narrative therapy, and play therapy (Child-centered, Adlerian, Theraplay, sand tray therapy). She integrates narrative and play therapies in her work with clients across the lifespan.
A C4CC Co-Founder, now on the XDS team as a Senior Director to build infrastructure, sustainability, and grow the Youth Mental Health Resilience Initiative, Alexa brings her passion and expertise in leading diverse community interventions to this prevention-focused, holistic mental health model and is thrilled to partner with youth, families, collaborative partners, and interprofessional providers to make it a reality.
Alexa is a “triple Panther” with an undergraduate and graduate degrees in clinical mental health counseling and women’s, gender and sexuality studies, with a concentration in community psychology, all from Georgia State University in Atlanta. In addition to mental health, social justice, youth empowerment, and cultivating community, Alexa cares deeply about supporting women and couples on the journey to grow their families, loving her family, being a Mom (to her children and big goofy dog), and celebrating spirituality, music, nature, and poetry.