About Andrea
Andrea Ferrara is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 17 years of experience. She offers straightforward, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addiction, ADHD, and related concerns. Andrea speaks plain language and helps clients focus on small, useful steps.
Andrea draws on a goal-focused mix of approaches to help people change unhelpful behavior and learn coping skills. She emphasizes working together to set clear goals and practice new ways of responding to daily stressors.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill building for managing mood, impulses, sleep, and difficult conversations. Her background includes work in independent practice, inpatient and outpatient settings, crisis call centers, suicide hotlines, and military installations. That range contributes to a flexible style that fits different needs and life stages.
Andrea also has experience leading group psychoeducation presentations. In sessions she helps people sort through relationship issues, family conflict, career frustrations, grief, and trauma. She also works with concerns such as eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, and impulsivity.
Practical tools and repeated practice are a core part of her approach. Andrea supports clients who want coaching-style strategies as well as traditional counseling work. She encourages self-care and realistic planning so clients can manage challenges and move forward.
The focus is on gradual change and building skills that fit everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Andrea often uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a supportive, respectful space where the client’s perspective guides the work. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people find their own solutions to problems like relationship strain, grief, or low self-esteem.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practice alternatives. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, panic attacks, impulsivity, and ADHD-related challenges because it emphasizes concrete skills and step-by-step practice.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Andrea works with clients to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life situation. Together they review what is working and adjust the plan over time so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions let people work face-to-face when visual connection helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a lunch break or commute. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins or a way to process things between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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