Andrea Bray Ryan
Compassionate practical help for everyday family life
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Andrea
Andrea Bray Ryan is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, addiction, and grief. She uses straightforward, practical strategies in sessions and aims to make conversations feel calm and manageable. Andrea writes and speaks plainly so parents can find clear steps to try between meetings.
Her approach blends structured therapy tools with attention to emotions and the body. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy when past events are getting in the way of daily life. Mindfulness practices and simple self-regulation techniques are part of her work to reduce overwhelm. Andrea trained at the master’s level and holds a Texas LPC, license number TX LPC 83457.
She has six years of clinical experience that include time in a behavioral hospital and independent practice. That mix gave her experience with both inpatient and outpatient needs and varied life challenges. In sessions she focuses on building coping skills, relaxation methods, and ways to strengthen relationships at home.
She emphasizes using a person’s existing strengths while adding new tools for handling stress and mood swings. Andrea prefers to work side by side with people rather than directing them. Therapy with Andrea is offered in English and delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Information about cost notes that sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and that pricing varies with location and therapist availability.
Therapeutic methods you can use online
Andrea commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change thinking and behavior patterns that increase stress or low mood, and it works well for anxiety, depression, and day-to-day coping. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on the effects of past traumatic events and offers specific strategies to reduce flashbacks, hyperarousal, and avoidance, helping people reclaim daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss goals, personal history, and preferences to choose which methods to try first. The therapist and client decide collaboratively and adjust methods as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. These options let parents fit therapy around appointments and family life, use shorter check-ins when needed, or have deeper video sessions. The mix of formats supports regular contact and practical skill-building from home without requiring travel.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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