About Andrea
Andrea Bercos is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Illinois who focuses on stress and anxiety among many other concerns. He brings 21 years of experience to sessions and aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
He draws on experience from community mental health, substance abuse programs, domestic violence and sexual assault services, public schools, and independent practice. That background informs how he listens and responds to issues like trauma, addictions, low self-esteem, depression, and grief.
Background and approach
In sessions Andrea keeps language simple and direct. He helps people talk through immediate worries, build coping skills, and find what works day to day. He tends to be warm and affirming, and focuses on creating a nonjudgmental space for hard conversations.
Andrea uses approaches that include client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, narrative work, and trauma-focused strategies. Those methods are used to address things such as relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and process addictions, gender and sexuality questions, and parenting stress. Practical matters like scheduling and session format are handled clearly.
Andrea offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. He guides each person toward the next small step, and supports them as they work toward clearer goals.
How his approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening and following the person's lead. In online sessions that means the therapist focuses on what matters most to the client and adapts pacing and topics to each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice patterns in thoughts and behaviors and learn practical strategies to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and eating or process addictions and works well through video or phone sessions. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-focused style that helps people find their own reasons to change, which can be helpful for addiction and behavior change work and fits shorter check-ins or messaging-based conversations.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. He will help figure out what methods suit the client's goals and preferences, adjusting the plan over time if something isn't working. That collaborative process includes clear discussion about goals, steps, and how progress will be checked.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets someone share thoughts between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule while still using the same therapeutic techniques used in person.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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