About Andrea
Andrea Walker uses a client-centered approach to guide each person toward clearer coping and healing. She blends practical tools with thoughtful listening to address stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and related concerns. Andrea holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and brings 21 years of clinical experience in Montana.
Andrea offers straightforward treatment that focuses on what a person needs right now. She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How Andrea works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices are also part of her toolbox for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. For trauma and abuse-related concerns, Andrea can include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as a way to reduce the intensity of painful memories. She also works with people around grief, self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, and career stress.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, and body image. Sessions are offered using a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs. Andrea describes therapy as a collaborative process where goals are set together and reviewed over time.
Her style is warm, direct, and oriented toward practical change. People who come for help can expect clear skill-building, guided conversations about difficult experiences, and options for creative interventions when words are hard to find. Andrea aims to help people move forward with tools they can use between sessions.
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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
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Montana |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Andrea commonly integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing into online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and works well for anxiety, depression, and stress. EMDR is an approach used to reduce the intensity of painful memories and can be adapted for remote work with guided processing and pacing.She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness to teach concrete skills for managing emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process; the therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences with therapy, and what feels most helpful, then tailor techniques to match those needs.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, messaging supports brief check-ins and reflections, and live chat can be useful for shorter focused conversations. These options help people fit sessions into busy schedules and keep continuity of care when in-person meetings are difficult.
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