About Andrew
Andrew Perez is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina with nine years of experience. He brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. He likes to focus on strengths and everyday routines that make a real difference.
He has worked in a variety of settings including a jail diversion program for teens, a residential evaluation hospital for children and adults, and community programs for at-risk youth and their families.
Background and approach
Those jobs shaped his interest in how identity, family ties, and social connection affect wellbeing. He often talks about how thoughts, habits, and relationships interact in daily life. Andrew uses tools from cognitive-behavioral approaches and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and build new patterns.
He also draws on client-centered and existential ideas to explore values and meaning. Sessions often mix practical skill-building with conversations about what matters most to the person. Typical work includes addressing depression, self-esteem, addictions, grief, parenting stress, career questions, and coping after trauma.
He also supports people dealing with anger, social anxiety, and issues around intimacy or fatherhood. Andrew pays attention to strengths like interests and routines, then helps clients expand those into daily habits that support change. His style is collaborative and straightforward.
He helps people set small goals, track progress, and adjust plans when needed. Getting started involves picking a path forward and building simple, realistic steps that fit each person’s life.
How approaches like ACT and CBT work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values. Online ACT sessions often include exercises to notice thoughts and choose actions that fit personal goals, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In remote sessions clients learn practical tools for spotting unhelpful thinking, testing beliefs, and building new routines that reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and the therapist’s nonjudgmental support. That approach helps people feel heard while they explore identity, self-worth, and relationship concerns. These methods are used together so treatment fits the person's needs and goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick techniques that match their situation and preferences. Sessions can shift over time as goals change, blending skill practice with values-based reflection.
Online therapy offers flexibility and convenience. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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