About Andrea
Andrea Dugas is a licensed social worker in Pennsylvania with 14 years of practice. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to ease anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and works with each person to clarify what matters most to them.
Her approach treats clients as the experts on their own lives. She highlights strengths already present and helps people build skills to manage worry, grief, relationship strain, and changes at home or work.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with space to process emotions and try new ways of coping. Andrea draws on methods that help people notice thoughts and act according to their values. She also uses strategies that break big problems into manageable steps.
Conversations tend to be direct, supportive, and focused on what can change now. Her background includes extensive work with trauma, family problems, grief, and the stress that comes from caring for others. That experience informs a steady, practical style that balances empathy with concrete tools.
Andrea aims to make therapy useful and understandable from the first session. When someone is juggling difficult emotions or confusing choices, she helps them sort priorities and build a plan. The work is aimed at improving daily functioning, reducing distressing symptoms, and strengthening coping skills so people can move forward.
Approaches and how online therapy fits your life
Andrea commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can ease avoidance and make daily life more meaningful. CBT teaches practical skills to change thinking patterns and behaviors that maintain anxiety, depression, or stress, and it works well for problems like sleep or worry.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Andrea collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She will check in regularly and adjust the plan so techniques are useful and realistic for day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for longer sessions and in-depth skill teaching, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Alabama
- Languages
- English
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