Alexandra Butler, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She holds a Master of Social Work from Columbia University.

Alongside her clinical work, Alex is a writer and script consultant. She is the author of two books,  Walking the Night Road, published by Columbia University Press, and a collection of poems, Circling the Same, published by Moran Moran Gallery. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and Cultured Magazine.

Alex has also co-written two short films: Ivy Holland, produced by Tribeca Films, and The Song is You, featured in The New Yorker's Screening Room Series.