About Andrea
Andrea Stocker is an LCSW practicing in California with about 10 years of experience in social services. She brings straightforward, person-focused care and a calm presence to sessions. Andrea speaks English and draws on a wide range of past roles to understand different life situations.
Her background includes work in a group home, homeless services, housing programs, a prison setting, and community health. That variety shaped how she notices practical barriers and everyday stresses people face.
Background and approach
She also has experience supporting older adults and caregivers through life transitions. Andrea uses a client-centered way of working. That means she starts by listening and tailoring the plan to each person.
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness tools to help with patterns of thinking, stress, and emotional regulation. Andrea helps people who are dealing with depression, anxiety, anger, stress, and grief. She also works with ADHD, addictions, sleep and eating concerns, relationship issues, and career-related stress.
She is sex-positive and comfortable with LGBTQ+ identities and people who engage in kink or alternative sexual cultures. In sessions she aims to make change feel doable. Conversations focus on small, practical steps, clearer routines, and ways to cope when things feel overwhelming.
The overall goal is to help people feel more steady, connected to their values, and better able to handle daily life.
Approach-driven online therapy for everyday struggles
Andrea uses Client-Centered Therapy to start where each person is and shape sessions around their goals and values. This approach focuses on respect, empathy, and listening so people can guide what feels most important to address.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help identify and change thinking and behavior patterns that worsen anxiety, depression, anger, and ADHD-related struggles. CBT often includes clear steps and practice between sessions to build new habits. Mindfulness Therapy is used alongside CBT to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce stress and improve focus.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Andrea collaborates with each person to decide which tools fit their needs and preferences. She adjusts plans over time based on progress, life changes, and practical goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people talk face-to-face; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited; live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins or shorter updates. These options are intended to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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