About Andrea
Andrea Goodwin uses client-centered, cognitive behavioral, and existential approaches to help people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and big life changes. She is an Arkansas licensed professional counselor with 16 years of experience. Andrea offers steady, practical support and listens carefully to what matters most to each person.
Her sessions focus on clear, doable steps alongside deeper personal meaning. She helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors that reduce anxiety and lift mood.
How Andrea works
She also helps people weigh values, purpose, and choices when life feels uncertain. Andrea has worked with many concerns related to relationships and personal history. These include attachment issues, family of origin problems, communication challenges, and codependency.
She also addresses struggles around adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, and recovery from substance problems. Clients may bring pain tied to guilt, shame, emptiness, or difficulty forgiving themselves or others. Andrea combines practical skills with reflective conversation so clients gain coping tools and clearer direction.
Sessions move at a steady, respectful pace based on each person’s needs. She provides help for matters like body image, commitment doubts, dependent personality patterns, domestic violence recovery, and workplace stress. Andrea aims to make therapy a down-to-earth space where people can practice change and begin to feel more capable.
Her work is offered in English and is delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Andrea holds an AR LPC credential and brings a mix of short-term skill building and deeper exploration to each client’s goals.
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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.
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arkansas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online counseling
Client-centered therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist offers empathic listening, reflects what the client says, and helps people steer sessions toward what feels most relevant and helpful. This approach supports those who need space to be heard and to find their own solutions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It uses clear exercises and small practice tasks to reduce anxiety and lift mood. CBT is useful for stress, worry, low self-esteem, and depression because it gives concrete tools to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then tailor techniques over time. Clients often combine practical CBT exercises with client-centered listening and existential questions about meaning and values.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can fit into a work break or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection, or times when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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