About Andrea
Andrea Schmidt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience in Colorado. She helps people facing addictions, trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting concerns. Andrea focuses on understanding why people react the way they do and on building clearer thinking as a first step toward change.
Her style is relational and client-centered. She listens first and then guides the conversation so people feel heard. Sessions aim for practical strategies that can be used between appointments to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
How Andrea works
Andrea draws on approaches like attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. She uses these tools to help people spot patterns, shift harmful reactions, and set realistic goals. The work often includes examining thoughts, decisions, and behaviors and trying small experiments to see what changes.
She has particular experience with substance use and sex-related addictions, family problems, attachment and adoption issues, post-traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue. Andrea also supports people dealing with grief, career stress, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and intimacy-related concerns. Her sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Andrea emphasizes collaboration - she helps people find what works for them and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Andrea lists 6 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.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online healing
Attachment-based work focuses on how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. In an online setting this approach helps people notice patterns in how they relate to others and practice new ways of connecting and setting boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, centers on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and shifting behaviors that maintain problems. Motivational Interviewing helps people resolve mixed feelings about change by exploring values and building motivation one step at a time.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Andrea will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She adjusts the plan as progress is made and checks in regularly to see what is helping and what to try next.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for interactive conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or a simpler check-in is needed, and messaging or chat can fit short updates or when a client prefers more time to write. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on practical steps and measurable progress.
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