About Andrea
Andrea Croston is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing depression, addictions, trauma, grief and self-esteem struggles. Andrea uses a person-centred stance that aims to make people feel heard and understood from the first session.
Andrea trained to a Level 4 in counselling and psychotherapy, and she holds membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She brings four years of formal counselling experience alongside many more years of voluntary work in charities, where she listened to people during difficult periods.
Background and approach
Her approach is holistic and collaborative. Sessions usually start by listening to what matters most to the person and then shaping practical steps together. She draws on several therapeutic methods, including cognitive approaches and acceptance-based work, depending on what the person needs.
Andrea says she does not see herself as the expert on someone’s life. Instead she supports people to identify what hurts and what helps, then works alongside them to build coping skills and clearer choices. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related concerns, sleep and eating issues, and challenges linked to identity and career.
Her background includes helping people with long-term health problems, caregiving stress, attachment and abandonment questions, and neurodiversity issues. People can expect a calm, patient presence and practical conversation aimed at small, manageable changes.
Approach-driven online counselling and flexible ways to meet
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being ruled by them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward a meaningful life, which can be useful for anxiety and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It teaches practical techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits, often used for anxiety and depression.
Andrea combines these approaches with a person-centred attitude that keeps the conversation grounded in what matters to each person. She will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. Finding the right approach is treated as a team effort rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face without travel. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging allow ongoing contact between sessions and can fit around work or caregiving schedules. These options make it easier to keep therapy going when life is busy or travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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