Lexi Barruso is a Master’s level Mental Health Therapist who specializes in helping individuals navigate sex addiction, intimacy disorders, behavioral addictions, substance use, and trauma. She works full-time at a residential treatment center, providing group and individual therapy for clients facing complex relational and emotional challenges. In addition to her work in residential care, Lexi works part-time at Saving Grace offering individual therapy in a warm, one-on-one setting.

Lexi’s clinical approach is grounded in attachment theory and relational healing. She helps clients explore how early experiences and unresolved attachment wounds shape their current emotional patterns, beliefs about themselves, and the way they show up in relationships. By working through these unconscious relational patterns in therapy, clients begin to experience deeper safety, trust, and connection—not just in the therapeutic space, but in their day-to-day lives. Lexi believes that healing happens in the context of safe, attuned relationships, and that addressing attachment wounds can lead to lasting change in how we connect with others and with ourselves.

Lexi earned her Master of Education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Middle Tennessee State University and is currently a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) Candidate. Her advanced training includes Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Gottman Method Level One, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Betrayal Trauma, and Attachment-based approaches to sexual compulsivity. She is also trained as a Peer Support Recovery Specialist through the state of Tennessee and has worked in various mental health settings since 2013.