About Andrea
Andrea Walker is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and practices from Montana. Andrea offers calm, practical support for people managing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and life transitions.
She uses straightforward, person-focused care. Sessions start by listening to what matters most and then trying small, concrete steps that fit daily life. She mixes talk-based work with hands-on techniques when words are hard to find.
Background and approach
Andrea draws on several therapy approaches to meet different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing provides a way to work through traumatic memories when they keep causing pain. Her background includes long experience with trauma, abuse, domestic violence, and attachment and family-of-origin issues. She also helps with grief, parenting strains, career stress, sleep and eating concerns, and caregiver burnout.
Andrea mentions creative interventions such as interactive play techniques when appropriate. Andrea aims to make treatment practical and collaborative. She helps people build coping skills, improve communication, and try strategies between sessions.
The focus is on gradual progress and finding approaches that fit each person’s life and goals.
Approaches that translate to online care
Andrea blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR, adapting each to remote work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful, collaborative relationship so the person sets goals and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy involves practical exercises and homework to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which transfers easily to video or text check-ins. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to process painful memories; when appropriate, specific EMDR techniques can be guided in video sessions to help reduce distress.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Andrea works together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She explains options and tests small steps so people can see what helps before committing to a particular path.
Online formats offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let therapists observe nonverbal cues and run structured interventions. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework review, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and travel while keeping treatment consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana
- Languages
- English
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