About Andrea
Andrea Goodwin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Arkansas with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes in a calm, practical way. She offers a warm, respectful space where people can speak honestly about what feels hard.
Sessions are aimed at helping someone understand patterns of thinking and behavior, reduce overwhelming feelings, and build clearer communication with others.
Background and approach
Andrea uses a mix of client-centered listening and practical, evidence-informed techniques to make change feel doable. She pays attention to how values, meaning, and daily habits affect mood and choices. Work often includes setting small goals and trying new actions between sessions.
Her background includes many years helping people cope with adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, attachment and family of origin problems, and recovery from domestic violence and substance issues. She also supports people facing body image, codependency, commitment, and communication difficulties. Andrea aims to help people develop self-compassion and clearer decision-making.
She is especially attentive to guilt, shame, emptiness, and forgiveness work. Practical strategies are combined with deeper conversations about purpose and values to help clients move forward. Therapy with Andrea is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
She works by listening carefully, naming patterns, and helping clients test new ways of coping in everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what someone is feeling so they feel understood and can name what matters most. This approach helps people who need a compassionate space to sort through emotions and make decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected and teaches small, practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by giving clear tools to try between sessions.
Existential Therapy invites conversations about meaning, values, and life direction. It helps when someone is facing big changes, feelings of emptiness, or questions about purpose and identity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist discusses goals, preferences, and past experiences to shape each plan. This is a collaborative process where methods are tried, adjusted, or combined depending on how well they fit.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between meetings. These options provide flexibility so people can stay consistent with sessions and practice new skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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