About Andrea
Andrea Schmidt is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 14 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, ADHD, relationship and family concerns, trauma and grief. Andrea focuses on practical steps so clients can manage day-to-day life more easily.
Andrea keeps sessions straightforward and down-to-earth. She listens first and helps people set clear goals. Sessions often include goal setting, skills practice, and checking progress together.
She aims to make therapy feel useful from the start.
Background and approach
Her style blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral strategies and elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness. That means conversations focus on what matters to the client, while also teaching tools to change unhelpful thoughts and manage strong emotions. Narrative ideas are used when it helps people reframe personal stories.
Andrea has worked across a broad range of concerns including sleeping problems, parenting stress, career transitions, compassion fatigue, and grief. She also supports people dealing with domestic violence aftermath, substance issues, eating and body image struggles, hoarding, and caregiving stress. Andrea adapts tools to fit each person’s situation.
Sessions are offered in English and are provided to people in Florida. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment.
Therapeutic Methods and Online Options
Andrea uses client-centered therapy to build a space where the person's concerns lead the conversation and goals are set together. This approach helps people clarify what matters and feel heard. Cognitive behavioral therapy involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical strategies to change feelings and behavior; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Andrea works with each person to decide which tools fit their needs and goals, and adjusts methods as progress is made. The plan can combine approaches so the work matches how the person prefers to learn and grow.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into busy days. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and skills practice, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or mobility is an issue, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people keep regular contact and build skills around everyday schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English