About Andrea
Andrea Stocker is an LCSW in California with ten years of experience in social services. She draws on work in group homes, homeless services, housing, correctional settings, and community health to offer steady, practical support. Andrea is sex positive and comfortable with LGBTQ+ clients and people involved in alternative relationship styles, including BDSM communities.
Andrea focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, and anger. She also helps with stress, ADHD, grief, addictions, intimacy-related concerns, and career issues.
Background and approach
Eating and sleeping problems, body image, and compassion fatigue are among other areas she addresses. Her approach centers on the whole person. She uses client-centered work alongside tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness.
She also brings narrative therapy and motivational interviewing into sessions when those methods fit the client’s goals. Andrea’s background includes work with older adults and experience across varied community settings. That variety shaped a practical style that values straightforward strategies and real-life problem solving.
Sessions tend to focus on small, doable changes a person can try between meetings. Clients can expect a direct but warm approach that balances listening with concrete steps. Andrea works with people who want to reduce anxiety, manage mood, improve relationships, or address stressful life transitions.
She aims to meet each person where they are and help them move forward.
How Andrea’s Approaches Work Online
Andrea uses client-centered work to put the person’s goals first. This means sessions begin by listening to what matters most and then shaping goals around that. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and mood symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Andrea will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts session style over time so techniques match what’s proving useful.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which add flexibility to scheduling and day-to-day life. Video works well for more in-depth conversation and teaching new skills. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between full sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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