Andrea Phillips, LPC - Therapist in Missouri

About Andrea

Andrea Phillips is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and parenting concerns. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first step less overwhelming for someone feeling stuck. Andrea views each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths clients can use right away.

In sessions she listens first and helps clients name what matters most.

Background and approach

She uses practical tools to address low mood, motivation, and self-esteem. When trauma or grief is present, she works at the client’s pace and brings approaches suited to processing intense memories and emotions. Andrea has four years of professional experience as a licensed counselor.

Her training includes Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT, Emotionally-Focused Therapy or EFT, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing or EMDR. These tools shape how she supports change in day-to-day life. Her work also touches on adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, communication problems, and issues faced by first responders and veterans.

She addresses intimacy-related struggles and family dynamics in straightforward ways that focus on what can be changed now. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Andrea emphasizes partnership in therapy and helps people move toward clearer thinking, calmer emotions, and better coping skills.

How Andrea’s Approaches Translate to Online Care

Andrea draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a supportive space where the therapist follows the client’s lead and honors their lived experience. This approach helps people feel understood and guides decisions about what to work on next.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT to teach concrete skills for managing anxious thoughts and unhelpful behaviors. CBT focuses on small, practical changes that can reduce stress and improve daily functioning.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Andrea works collaboratively to choose or combine methods based on each person’s needs, goals, and comfort level. She explains options and checks in often to make sure the work feels helpful.

Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent during busy times, while allowing the same skill-building and processing that happen in person. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and pacing to each format so clients can get practical support where and when they need it.

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.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Andrea address in therapy?

She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, self-esteem and parenting issues among other concerns listed in her profile.

What is her general approach in sessions?

She listens first and uses a mix of client-centered work and specific techniques to teach coping skills and improve daily functioning.

What level of experience does she have?

Andrea has four years of professional work experience as a licensed counselor in Missouri.

What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?

She holds the LPC credential with license number MO LPC 2012037385 and practices from Missouri.

In which language are sessions offered?

Sessions are offered in English.

Which session formats are available?

Clients can meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin working together?

To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Also works with

ADHD
Adoption and foster care
Anger management
Caregiver issues and stress
Communication problems
Compassion fatigue
Coping with life changes
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Depression
Family conflicts
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Intimacy-related issues
Isolation / loneliness
Parenting issues
Post-traumatic stress
Relationship issues
Self esteem
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 4 years
Licensed: Missouri
Languages: English

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