About Andrea
Andrea Aurino is a licensed social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She has 25 years of experience and practices from Michigan. Her approach is steady and practical, aimed at small changes that add up over time.
She focuses on common but painful problems like depression, trauma and relationship strain. Andrea listens closely to each person’s story and looks for clear steps to reduce overwhelm. Sessions often include simple skills to cope with strong feelings and to improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Andrea uses methods that help people reframe unhelpful thoughts and tell new stories about their lives. She also uses short-term solution-focused work to identify immediate changes that bring relief. This mix helps people who want both practical tools and space to process difficult experiences.
Clients bring concerns such as family problems, communication troubles, codependency, caregiver stress, abandonment or issues tied to adoption and foster care. She also addresses work stress, aging and first responder issues when those come up in sessions. Her style is collaborative and straightforward.
Andrea helps people set realistic goals and tracks progress with them. She explains approaches in plain language and adjusts the plan as needs change.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Andrea uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT offers specific exercises and behavioral experiments that people can try between sessions to reduce symptoms and build confidence.She also draws on Narrative Therapy, which helps people separate themselves from painful stories and rewrite how they understand life events. That approach can be useful for processing trauma, family of origin issues, and feelings of emptiness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Andrea will discuss goals and preferences and tailor a mix of methods to fit each person's needs. The plan is collaborative and can shift as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to keep appointments and use therapy consistently.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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