About Andrea
Andrea Stocker uses a client-centered approach to guide conversations and care. She is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and brings about 10 years of social services experience to her work. Andrea speaks plain language and aims to make therapy feel direct and practical.
Her background includes work in a group home, homeless services, housing programs, prison settings, and community health. That variety shaped how she sees stress, trauma, and everyday challenges.
How Andrea works
She also has experience supporting older adults and caregiver stress. Andrea focuses on depression, anxiety, anger, and addictions. She also helps people dealing with ADHD, grief, bipolar concerns, intimacy-related issues, and eating and sleeping struggles.
Concerns around relationships, communication, boundary and control issues are part of her practice as well. She is sex positive and comfortable with LGBTQ+ clients and people who participate in BDSM or alternative sexual cultures. Andrea follows the Health at Every Size model when addressing body image and eating concerns and centers respect for each person's experience.
In sessions Andrea blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches. She works collaboratively to set goals and choose techniques that fit each person's life. Her style aims to be down-to-earth and focused on practical steps people can use between meetings.
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
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approach-based care online and flexible session options
Andrea combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness strategies. Client-centered work focuses on the person's priorities and experiences and helps shape goals together. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors to build different habits and reduce symptoms such as anxiety or anger. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help manage stress and reactivity.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Andrea will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. She adjusts methods over time based on what helps and what feels realistic to use between sessions.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow a real-time conversation similar to an in-person meeting. Phone sessions can work when video isn't possible or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to touch base between appointments or to communicate when typing feels more comfortable. These options aim to make regular care easier to schedule and maintain alongside work, caregiving, or other demands.
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