About Andrea
Andrea Browning is a licensed mental health counselor with 23 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns. Andrea supports those working through life changes, low self-esteem, panic, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses issues linked to identity and LGBT concerns. Andrea’s work grew from addiction treatment and outpatient counseling into a focus on trauma. She uses Internal Family Systems and Trauma-Focused Therapy alongside mindfulness practices.
Background and approach
Sessions invite gentle attention to how thoughts, emotions, and the body interact. The approach is practical and paced to each person's needs. In a typical session Andrea listens first and then suggests small, doable steps.
She draws on breathing and grounding exercises, inner parts work, and trauma-informed techniques. Clients may work on coping skills for panic, tools for managing mood, or ways to repair painful attachment patterns. Andrea emphasizes clarity about goals and progress.
She helps people recognize old patterns like codependency, abandonment fears, or family-of-origin wounds. Work may include exploring forgiveness, rebuilding self-love, or reducing shame and guilt. Based in New York, Andrea blends experience from clinics and independent practice.
She aims for straightforward conversation and steady support. The focus is on helping people feel more able to handle daily life and make clearer choices.
Approaches that translate to online care
Mindfulness Therapy focuses on simple present-moment skills like breathing, body awareness, and grounding. Online sessions can use these exercises to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and build steady routines. Trauma-Focused Therapy targets the effects of past traumatic events and uses structured methods to process memories and reduce reactivity; this work can proceed through talk, paced exposure, and stabilization techniques in virtual sessions. Internal Family Systems helps people notice and dialogue with inner parts - fears, critics, protectors, and vulnerable parts - to heal attachment wounds and reduce shame, and it adapts well to guided conversation and reflective exercises online.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose or combine methods that match their goals, symptoms, and comfort level. Sessions begin with listening, then testing what feels helpful, and adjusting the plan over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible options that fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, written reflections when that suits them better. These formats make it simpler to maintain regular contact and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English