About Andrew
Andrew Breen is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 13 years of professional experience. He focuses on everyday concerns like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and motivation. He approaches sessions with plain language and a practical focus so worried parents can follow along easily.
He begins by listening to each person's story and identifying strengths they already have. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Andrew helps people set small, manageable steps and checks progress over time.
Background and approach
Andrew draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address a wide range of issues. He has worked with people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, and major life changes. He also supports those dealing with attention difficulties, bipolar mood issues, and compassion fatigue.
He has experience with relationship and family concerns in the context of individual work, including parenting stress, divorce and separation, and attachment issues. He also helps people coping with isolation, shame, impulsivity, or the challenges of adoption and foster care. Sessions are offered in English and can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging.
Andrew frames therapy as a step-by-step process and aims to empower people to make changes that fit their daily life.
Practical approaches and online options
Andrew uses a few evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and steady progress. One approach teaches coping skills for stress and anxiety through short exercises and breath or attention practices to reduce immediate overwhelm. Another focuses on behavioral changes and small goal-setting to build confidence, motivation, and better daily routines for mood and focus.Finding the right approach is part of the process. He collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and daily life. Clients and therapist check in together and adjust methods as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online therapy here offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people see facial cues and work through material in depth. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a session fits into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing support between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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