About Andrea
Andrea Bragdon uses an approach that centers on acceptance, mindfulness, and practical problem solving. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with seven years of clinical experience. Andrea focuses on helping people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy.
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Sessions are conversational and grounded in techniques that help clients notice thoughts and take meaningful action.
How Andrea works
Andrea blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered work, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies to meet each person where they are. Andrea has worked with people coping with post-traumatic stress, mood disorders, career transitions, and the stresses of parenting. She also supports those exploring kink, BDSM, and non-monogamous relationships, and people grappling with body image, chronic illness, family-of-origin wounds, guilt, or loneliness.
Practical concerns like communication problems, divorce, and life purpose are part of her caseload. In sessions she helps clients clarify values, set small reachable goals, and practice skills that reduce reactivity. Work can include mindfulness exercises, values-based planning, and brief coaching moments to move forward between sessions.
Andrea aims to make therapy useful and understandable. She offers services from Florida and speaks English. International clients are accepted.
Getting started involves completing a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client’s needs.
Andrea lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Andrea works with
The areas below are the ones Andrea selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Andrea commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness techniques to help clients notice unhelpful patterns and choose actions that match their values. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps toward those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness, useful for stress, trauma responses, and mood challenges.She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize listening and building rapport so clients feel heard. Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work together; the therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match goals, needs, and preferences rather than prescribing a single route up front.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video is helpful for full-session conversations and exercises that involve reflection or guided practice. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and texting work well for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and adapt how sessions happen as life changes.
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