About Andrienne
Andrienne Horton-Smith is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 24 years of experience based in Illinois. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strains, trauma, and changes in life. Andrienne centers work on self-worth and practical steps people can use right away.
She uses clear, goal-oriented sessions to help people untangle strong emotions and recurring patterns. Sessions often include talking through what triggers stress or anxiety and practicing ways to respond differently.
Background and approach
Andrienne draws on approaches that aim to change unhelpful thoughts and build small, steady habits that improve daily life. Her background includes individual counseling, group work, life coaching, and mentoring. That mix helps her offer both short-term problem-solving and longer-term work on identity, purpose, or mood.
She often addresses issues such as attachment and abandonment, communication problems, forgiveness, and impulsivity. People who come to her for trauma-related concerns will find a trauma-focused perspective combined with practical tools. She also supports those navigating workplace strain, social anxiety, and multicultural questions.
Andrienne pays attention to how past experiences shape current reactions. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She encourages clients to name their strengths and use them in the healing process.
Andrienne aims to help clients move toward clearer thinking, calmer reactions, and more satisfying daily routines.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Andrienne commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often includes simple exercises to try between sessions and is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and workplace stress.She also draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy to help people process distressing experiences and reduce the ways past trauma shapes current reactions. This approach pairs discussion with paced, practical strategies to manage strong emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will decide together which methods fit the client’s goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration means techniques can be adjusted as therapy progresses to focus on symptom relief, skills building, or deeper processing.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can be a lighter option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for check-ins or shorter problem-solving, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility while maintaining therapeutic continuity.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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