About Andrea
Andrea Joyce is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Clinician (LMHC) with 23 years of experience. She practices from Nebraska and focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Her approach is calm and practical, aimed at helping someone find manageable next steps.
She uses straightforward, person-centered work that honors each client's story. Sessions focus on where a person is now and what they need to move forward.
Background and approach
Andrea draws on cognitive-behavioral tools to help challenge unhelpful thoughts and on mindfulness practices to build steadiness in the moment. Many clients come with trauma, grief, depression, or major life changes. Andrea also supports people dealing with relationship strain, self-esteem issues, anger, ADHD, and mood concerns.
She works with issues related to adoption and foster care, abandonment, and family of origin difficulties when those topics come up. Andrea has a history of working in agency, university, and law enforcement settings, and she is familiar with foster care and juvenile court systems from her face-to-face practice. That background helps her understand practical challenges people often face when seeking help.
Her style is collaborative and strength focused. She aims to identify what is already working and build on those skills. The pace and focus are shaped by each person’s goals and comfort level.
How Andrea’s approaches translate to online sessions
Andrea often blends cognitive-behavioral work with client-centered and mindfulness techniques. Cognitive-behavioral work focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and building practical coping skills for anxiety, mood issues, and stress. Client-centered work emphasizes listening and tailoring the pace to the person's needs, helping people feel heard and seen as they set goals.Mindfulness practices are used to build moment-to-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. These exercises can help when anxiety, grief, or trauma symptoms feel overwhelming by teaching simple, repeatable ways to track sensations and return to the present.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Andrea collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. She adjusts plans over time based on what helps most in real sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is well suited for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas
- Languages
- English
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