About Andree
Andree McColl-Ravanelli is a California-licensed clinical social worker with seven years of experience. She helps people who feel stuck by listening and offering practical support. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, LGBT concerns, self-esteem, and ADHD-related challenges.
She frames the work around each person's strengths and goals. Andree believes people know their own stories and brings a collaborative stance to sessions. She helps clients break problems into manageable steps and builds on what already works.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and geared toward real-life changes like better routines, clearer communication, and more confidence. She also supports people juggling caregiver stress, money worries, and relationship shifts such as divorce or separation. Her work addresses life transitions like midlife doubts and questions about life purpose.
Topics around sexuality and women’s issues are part of her practice as well. Sessions aim to boost motivation and self-love while reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress when trauma is present. Andree helps people work through communication problems and offers tools to manage daily stress.
Her approach is practical and person-centered, with an emphasis on what clients want to achieve. Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk and plan next steps. Andree supports people who want steady progress without overly technical language.
She encourages small experiments between sessions to test what helps.
Approaches that guide online care
Andree uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and healing. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches routines, coping strategies, and communication tools to reduce anxiety and manage daily stress. This helps people translate ideas into steps they can try between sessions.Another frequent focus is trauma-informed care, which addresses the effects of past trauma at a pace the client controls and offers ways to manage flashbacks, avoidance, or strong emotions. This approach aims to increase safety and stability before tackling deeper material.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Andree talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before choosing methods to try. She adjusts the plan as sessions reveal what fits best for the individual.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and subtle cues, while phone calls require less bandwidth and work well for check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit short updates or quick coaching into a busy day. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity of care across locations and schedules.
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- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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