About Andrea
Andrea Brant is a licensed mental health counselor with 13 years of experience. She practices in Massachusetts and focuses on common challenges like anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship concerns. Andrea aims to create a straightforward, supportive space where people can speak freely and feel heard.
Andrea began her career in inpatient care and has worked across settings including outpatient clinics and programs for the federal government. That background gave her experience with a wide range of situations, from addiction and dual diagnosis to trauma and grief.
Background and approach
She has done many initial evaluations and has worked with clients who presented with varied and complex needs. Her approach is collaborative and practical. Sessions center on the client’s priorities and use methods that fit each person rather than a single formula.
She combines cognitive behavioral tools with mindfulness and emotionally focused ideas when those techniques match a client’s goals. Andrea emphasizes clear conversation and honesty in sessions. She aims to be friendly and nonjudgmental and to help people identify small, workable steps toward change.
Parents or individuals worried about sleep, parenting strain, career stress, or body image can expect direct talk about what is getting in the way and what might help. Andrea offers therapy through video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Her online work is intended to make support easier to access and to fit counseling into busy lives.
How Andrea’s Methods Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client. It helps people who need a supportive space to talk through decisions, relationships, or self-worth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings run high.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Andrea will collaborate with each person to choose and adjust methods based on goals and what feels useful. That way sessions remain practical and focused on measurable steps rather than one fixed model.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer, deeper session is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a check-in fits into a short break. Live chat and text messaging let people send updates or get quick reflections between appointments. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and preferences while keeping attention on real progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- 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
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