About Andrea
Andrea Ellis is a licensed clinician in Maryland who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, and related challenges. She uses a practical, respectful style and aims to make each session feel straightforward and useful. Andrea holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, with three years of professional experience.
Andrea helps people work through trauma, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports those struggling with sleep problems, low self-esteem, parenting strain, and obsessive thoughts or compulsions.
Background and approach
Conversations are shaped to the person in front of her rather than a fixed agenda. Her approach centers on listening first and then building small, doable steps toward clearer routines and healthier patterns. Sessions often include problem-solving, skill practice, and time to talk through feelings about life changes.
She works at a pace that fits each person’s needs. Clients can expect straightforward talk about what’s working and what needs to change. Andrea aims to keep plans concrete so progress is easy to notice.
She balances emotional support with practical tools to manage day-to-day struggles. Starting therapy is treated as a partnership. Andrea outlines options, answers questions, and adapts plans as progress is made.
Her goal is to help people feel more capable and less overwhelmed as they move forward.
Evidence-informed approaches and online care
Andrea uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skill building and practical change. One common approach helps people learn steps to manage anxiety and stress through breathing, grounding, and routine changes that reduce overwhelm. Another approach targets obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors by breaking down patterns and practicing alternative responses to reduce disruption in daily life. Finding the right method is a collaborative process. Andrea will talk with each person about goals, test ways of working, and adjust approaches based on what feels most helpful. She aims to match tools to the client's needs rather than insisting on one method. Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face talk and shared worksheets, phone sessions can fit shorter breaks or lower bandwidth needs, live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins and ongoing skill practice between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain steady progress.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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