Andrea Paige
Compassionate support for practical change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Andrea
Andrea Paige is a licensed professional counselor who practices in Alabama. She brings nine years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She also supports clients facing trauma, addiction concerns, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy.
Her work emphasizes clear, practical steps rather than clinical jargon. Andrea builds a calm, respectful space where people can talk honestly about what’s hard. She listens for patterns of thinking and behavior, then offers tools people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
She focuses on improving communication, managing strong emotions, and rebuilding trust after difficult experiences. Her training includes methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and approaches that attend to attachment and values. Andrea uses these to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice different ways of relating, and set goals that match their priorities.
She also draws on skills from acceptance and commitment work and from dialectical behavior techniques when needed. She often helps clients with parenting stress, blended family concerns, codependency, and problems that follow separation or loss. Andrea pays attention to how past wounds show up in present relationships and helps people test new ways of connecting.
Sessions aim to be practical, with small experiments and clear next steps. People who prefer direct guidance combined with warmth often find her style useful. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Andrea’s approach is collaborative - she and each client decide together which tools fit best.
How Andrea’s approaches translate to online care
Andrea uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and problems that respond to clear behavior changes and practice.She also works with attachment-based ideas that look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps when trust, closeness, or recurring relationship problems are central concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Andrea treats therapy as a collaboration and will help the client choose which methods to try based on goals, comfort, and progress. Treatment plans are adjusted as needed so the work stays relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, handle parenting or caregiving demands, and continue work from different locations. The variety also lets clients use the mode that best supports practicing skills between sessions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Andrea
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point