About Andrea
Andrea Phillips is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri with four years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or past trauma. She aims to meet clients with patience and clear, practical support as they work toward feeling more steady and able to cope.
Andrea believes each person knows their story best and brings strengths to the work. She listens first, then offers tools and strategies that fit each person’s situation.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-focused while staying sensitive to emotional pace. Her approach blends client-centered listening with evidence-informed strategies. That mix helps when someone needs both understanding and concrete skills for day-to-day challenges.
Techniques from cognitive behavioral work are used to notice patterns and try new responses. Andrea also uses approaches that address strong emotional experiences and past distress. These methods can help people who continue to feel stuck after difficult events.
She supports people managing relationship strain, parenting stress, caregiver burnout, and work-related trauma such as first responder issues. Sessions are offered in English and can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Andrea works with concerns like ADHD, anger, isolation, and compassion fatigue in addition to depression and coping with life changes.
She encourages taking the next small step when someone is ready to begin.
How Andrea Uses Therapy Methods Online
Andrea draws on client-centered work to build a trusting space where people feel heard. This approach focuses on the person's own goals and priorities and helps guide what comes next.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and try different actions. CBT helps with anxiety, stress, low mood, and coping with day-to-day problems by teaching specific skills and practiceable steps.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Andrea will listen to your needs and preferences and suggest methods that match your goals. Together you can adjust pace and techniques as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper exchanges. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer quick, flexible ways to stay connected between longer sessions. These options help people balance therapy with work, parenting, caregiving, or other daily obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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