About Andrea
Andrea Aurino is a licensed social worker who brings 25 years of experience to her practice in Michigan. She works with people coping with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and relationship and family concerns. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel understood and find practical steps forward.
Andrea focuses on building coping tools clients can use day to day. She often helps people who feel overwhelmed by change or stuck after painful experiences.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with space to process emotions and try new approaches. Many clients come with problems tied to family of origin, blended families, adoption and foster care, or caregiver stress. Andrea also supports people facing control issues, codependency, communication struggles, divorce and separation, and the fallout from domestic violence.
She pays attention to how past hurts shape present choices. Her work uses straightforward methods to change unhelpful thinking and improve problem solving. She combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with narrative and solution-focused ideas to help people reframe stories and test practical changes.
This mix is useful for phobias, social anxiety, and everyday fears as well as broader mood concerns. Andrea aims to make therapy fit each person’s life. She listens for priorities, suggests small experiments, and adjusts the pace based on what the person needs.
Her goal is to help people feel steadier, more capable, and clearer about next steps.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Andrea uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, phobias, and mood issues by breaking problems into small, testable steps.She also brings Narrative Therapy into sessions to help clients reframe life stories that keep them stuck. This approach helps people separate themselves from painful events and create new ways of understanding their choices and strengths.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust based on what's helpful. Clients are active partners in choosing strategies and setting the pace.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversations and observing nonverbal cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other demands while working toward clearer coping and reduced fear.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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