About Andrea
Andrea Pugh is a licensed clinician with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and anger. She uses practical, down-to-earth methods in session and keeps the tone warm and approachable. Andrea values honesty, teamwork, and a client’s own strengths when setting goals.
Andrea draws on person-centered, solution-focused, and cognitive behavioral approaches to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She often mixes in humor and lightness when appropriate to make difficult conversations easier.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear goals, small steps, and accountability so progress is visible. Her background includes work in schools, community mental health, substance abuse clinics, and corrections. Over the years Andrea has supported people facing addiction, trauma, mood disorders, panic symptoms, and challenges with impulse control.
She also helps people struggling with attachment issues, body image, communication problems, shame and guilt, and isolation. Andrea holds a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology and lists credentials as MD, LCPC, and LPC. She is licensed in Texas and has experience working across a range of settings with diverse concerns.
Sessions are offered in English. Outside of clinical work she enjoys time with family and her black Labrador, travel, concerts, dancing, and singing. She aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and supportive.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Person-centered work focuses on listening and building partnership. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns, and helps people name what matters most to them. This approach can help with trust, motivation, and clarifying goals.Solution-focused techniques emphasize small, practical changes and clear, short-term goals. These tools work well in remote formats because they break problems into concrete steps clients can try between sessions. Cognitive behavioral techniques look at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teach specific skills for managing anxiety, panic, and mood symptoms. Clients learn exercises they can practice on their own and report back in the next session.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss options, test what feels helpful, and adapt methods to fit each person's needs, goals, and preferences. That shared process helps find the best path forward.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging can help with quick reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit regular work on anxiety and stress into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Oregon, Maryland
- Languages
- English
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