About Andrea
Andrea Maxwell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who helps people cope with stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing depression, grief, anger, addictions, and the ripple effects of trauma. Andrea also supports people managing parenting challenges, family conflict, adoption and foster care concerns, and issues tied to sexual orientation and identity.
Her style centers on a person-centered approach that treats each person as the expert on their life.
Background and approach
She listens first and helps clients name strengths they already have. From there she offers practical steps and goals clients can try between sessions. Andrea blends straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy with solution-focused techniques to break problems into small, manageable parts.
When trauma is central, she incorporates trauma-focused practices and motivational interviewing to help clients stay engaged with hard work. Sessions aim to be goal-minded and paced to the client’s needs. In sessions she helps people create clearer routines, face panic or overwhelming worry, and make plans to reduce harmful behaviors.
She also works on building self-esteem and improving family relationships through concrete communication skills. The focus is on what can change now, so daily life becomes easier to handle. Andrea has three years of formal counseling experience and practices in Michigan.
She conducts therapy in English and uses a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to meet different needs.
How Andrea’s approaches translate to online therapy
Andrea often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening carefully and building on the client’s own goals and values. This approach helps people feel heard and guides collaborative planning about what to try next.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks worries and unhelpful behaviors into manageable steps. CBT offers specific tools for anxiety, panic, and low mood such as thought tracking and behavior experiments that adapt well to remote sessions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Andrea works with each person to test methods, adjust plans, and choose the techniques that fit their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and changes course when something isn’t working.
Online therapy with Andrea can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can offer shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain progress over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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