About Andrea
Andrea Walker is a licensed social worker with more than two decades of clinical experience. She practices in Montana and brings a calm, straightforward manner to sessions. Andrea uses clear, practical steps to help people manage stress and anxiety.
She draws on several approaches to tailor therapy to each person. Andrea often uses client-centered techniques to build trust and help people set their own goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and DBT skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Background and approach
Andrea has particular experience with trauma and abuse and with related issues such as grief, relationship strain, eating and sleep problems, and caregiver stress. She helps people who face the long-term effects of neglect, domestic violence, or childhood abuse and those coping with major life changes. In sessions she mixes practical skill-building with opportunities to process painful memories.
EMDR and trauma-focused CBT are among the methods she may offer when trauma memories are a core concern. Andrea also uses mindfulness exercises to help clients stay grounded in the present. Her work is collaborative and paced to each person's readiness.
She emphasizes coping skills people can use between sessions and supports gradual steps toward goals. Andrea aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first meeting.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Andrea often combines cognitive behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to address anxiety and trauma. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for worry, depression, and coping with life changes. EMDR helps process painful memories that keep triggering strong emotions, using guided attention and memory-focused techniques.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress is reviewed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you use visual cues and eye movement techniques when needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is preferred. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief updates, skill practice, or when written reflection feels most helpful. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to continue care when travel or scheduling are challenges.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana
- Languages
- English
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