Andrea Walker
Therapy that focuses on practical steps and healing
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Andrea
Andrea Walker is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, person-focused therapy to help people cope with stressful life moments. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and brings 21 years of experience to sessions. Andrea draws on simple, proven methods so conversations feel clear and useful.
Parents reading this will find straightforward language and steps rather than confusing jargon. She often blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address anxiety, depression, and stress.
Background and approach
Those approaches are used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns, practice new skills, and build routines that ease daily life. Andrea also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when trauma symptoms, intense emotions, or persistent distress are present.
Her work includes focused attention on parenting concerns, family problems, and relationship challenges alongside issues such as grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, and career stress. Additional areas she addresses include adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues, and caregiver stress. She also supports people facing dissociation, domestic violence impacts, and communication breakdowns.
Sessions can include creative tools and interactive techniques when words are hard to find. Andrea integrates mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to encourage small, manageable steps. She aims to help clients try approaches, notice what works, and adjust plans as needed.
Andrea practices in Montana and holds licensure in multiple states. Services are provided in English and are offered through a variety of online formats to match different needs and schedules.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Andrea often combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to make online sessions feel direct and useful. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person, helping them set goals and feel understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors, teaching concrete skills to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful routines.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are central concerns. DBT offers step-by-step tools for handling strong emotions and improving communication, which can be practiced across sessions and in daily life. Andrea will work together with each person to choose which approach, or combination, makes the most sense based on their needs and goals.
Online therapy with Andrea is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, revisit skills between sessions, and keep progress moving when in-person meetings are difficult. The focus is on practical strategies, collaborative planning, and using the online format to support steady, useful work toward the client’s goals.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana
- Languages
- English
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