About Andrea
Andrea Phillips helps people who are carrying heavy stress, anxiety, grief, or the aftermath of trauma. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable. Andrea is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with four years of clinical experience.
She believes clients know their own stories and brings a steady, respectful presence to sessions. Conversations focus on strengths and practical steps. Andrea supports people working through low mood, anger, self-esteem concerns, and confidence-building.
How Andrea works
Her work also addresses relationship and intimacy-related worries, parenting strain, and the impacts of caregiving. She pays attention to isolation, compassion fatigue, and issues connected to adoption, foster care, or veteran and first responder experiences. Andrea helps people who face major life changes and those coping with guilt, shame, or forgiveness.
When trauma is part of the picture, she draws on approaches that help reduce distress and process difficult memories. She uses goal-focused techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and collaborative, person-centered conversation to clarify values and next steps. Sessions are practical and aimed at everyday improvements.
Andrea offers a calm, straightforward style for people looking for support in Missouri. She listens, helps set small goals, and adjusts methods to match each person's needs and pace. Taking that first step is hard, and she focuses on making the next steps clear and doable.
Andrea lists 4 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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How Andrea's Methods Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s priorities. It helps people gain clarity about what matters and what small steps they want to try to feel better.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with more useful choices. It is commonly used for anxiety, low mood, and coping with stress.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can be used when trauma or difficult memories cause ongoing distress; it aims to reduce the intensity of those memories so daily life is easier to manage.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Andrea will talk through options and help choose techniques based on a person's goals, preferences, and how they respond in early sessions. She adjusts methods collaboratively rather than sticking to a single plan.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for in-depth conversations, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be good for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, short-form communication. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work between sessions.
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