About Thomika
Thomika Andrews is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, ADHD concerns, and relationship challenges. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. Thomika aims to build a steady working relationship where people feel heard and understood.
Her approach begins with listening. She asks questions about daily routines, patterns, and what feels most urgent. From there she and the client set clear, achievable goals and map small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Thomika uses techniques from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral strategies to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also draws on emotionally focused ideas to address closeness and communication problems in relationships. Narrative tools are used when someone wants to reframe painful stories about themselves.
Over a decade of practice has given Thomika experience with a wide range of concerns, including parenting stress, work burnout, low self-esteem, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people facing life transitions, breakup or divorce, and career shifts. Her experience includes work with diverse backgrounds and cultural perspectives.
Sessions are offered online in several formats to fit different schedules. Thomika guides each person toward approaches that match their goals, then adjusts as progress is made. She keeps the work practical, concrete, and focused on what the client wants to change.
Practical Approaches for Online Therapy
Thomika commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and can decide what to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and tries small changes to reduce anxiety, improve focus, or alter patterns that cause stress.She also applies emotionally-focused ideas when relationship or intimacy issues are central. That approach helps people name emotions and change interactions that keep problems stuck. Choosing the right method is a collaborative process; the therapist will discuss options, try approaches together, and adjust based on what helps the client reach their goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can fit a work break or be simpler to use, chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging lets someone reflect on thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to match therapy to a person's schedule and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English
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