About Andrea
Andrea Brant is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Massachusetts with 13 years of clinical experience. She began her career in inpatient settings and later provided therapy in federal programs and outpatient clinics. Andrea has worked with a wide range of people and brings that variety into sessions today.
Andrea focuses on practical, straightforward work. She uses client-centered care and evidence-based methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and tailored to each person's needs. Her background includes initial evaluations and ongoing therapy across many presenting problems. That experience shaped a flexible approach to issues like trauma, addiction, grief, self-esteem, sleep troubles, and parenting concerns.
Andrea aims to create a judgment-free space where people can speak honestly about what’s hard for them. She prioritizes listening, clear feedback, and working together to find useful tools. Clients can expect a direct, supportive style that balances warmth with practical problem solving.
She regularly integrates cognitive behavioral work and draws on mindfulness and emotionally-focused ideas when they fit. Andrea adapts techniques rather than using a single fixed method, so plans change as goals evolve.
How Andrea’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them find their own answers to relationship, self-esteem, or life-change concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going. Andrea uses CBT to build practical skills for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping with change.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete tools for managing strong emotions and improving communication. It can be useful for anger, impulsivity, relationship conflicts, and stress that feels overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Andrea will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. She adjusts techniques over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions make it easier to access regular support. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be simpler when internet bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, brief reflections, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Nebraska, Washington
- Languages
- English