About Andrea
Andrea Phillips is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and ADHD-related struggles. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Andrea believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to the work.
She aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and supported. Andrea uses brief, direct conversations to understand what feels most urgent.
Background and approach
She mixes client-centered listening with clear tools drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches to help change unhelpful thoughts and habits. For people impacted by traumatic events, she also offers techniques informed by EMDR and emotionally-focused work to process painful memories and rebuild emotional safety. Sessions are collaborative.
Andrea helps set realistic goals and breaks them into small, doable actions. She often focuses on coping skills for anxiety, ways to manage stress, and strategies to boost motivation and self-esteem. Her background includes four years of clinical experience working with trauma, caregiver stress, first responder concerns, and grief.
That experience informs a practical style that balances active listening with concrete technique. Andrea provides care in English and works with adults who want to address life transitions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, or challenges tied to adoption and foster care. She aims to be steady, clear, and compassionate as people work toward more stable day-to-day functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and working from your priorities. A therapist follows your lead, reflects what you say, and helps you build on the strengths you already have. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors link to feelings and teaches practical strategies to change patterns that keep problems going. CBT is often used for anxiety, stress, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Andrea will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful for their goals and situation. Together you can try approaches, adjust them, and choose tools that fit your needs and preferences rather than following a fixed plan.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, ongoing coaching, and easier continuity between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit counseling into a busy life while using the approaches above to address anxiety, trauma-related symptoms, ADHD challenges, grief, and relationship concerns.
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What this therapist works with
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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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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