Andrew Merritt
Family-focused counselor and coach
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Oklahoma, Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Andrew
Andrew Merritt is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 20 years of counseling experience. He focuses on family and parenting concerns along with relationship issues, stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. He also addresses parenting, self-esteem, intimacy-related problems, sleep difficulties, anger, career questions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and coaching needs.
Andrew brings a calm, practical manner to sessions and speaks English. He trained for a Master’s degree in Counseling and holds LPC licenses in Oklahoma and Colorado.
Background and approach
His work has included families, couples, individuals, and people facing serious mental health challenges. He has also worked in leadership roles helping organizations with staff and leadership development. Andrew uses trauma-focused methods such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy.
He usually blends approaches rather than sticking to a single method. In sessions he asks questions, helps uncover unhelpful beliefs, and offers gentle challenges to shift patterns that get in the way of daily coping. He focuses on building new skills and routines that support stronger relationships and healthier family life.
He also looks for ways to restore joy through traditions and meaningful activities. His aim is to help people move from simply surviving toward functioning better in day-to-day life. Andrew approaches counseling as a collaborative journey.
He frames therapy as a shared process where he travels alongside clients and their loved ones, working with respect for each person’s values and goals.
Evidence-based approaches for family and parenting work online
Andrew uses evidence-based trauma-focused techniques such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that came from traumatic experiences. This approach is often used when trauma or abuse affects family life and daily functioning.He is also trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy, a method that helps identify and reframe beliefs that keep people stuck after trauma. It can be useful when intrusive memories, guilt, or shame interfere with relationships and parenting. Finding the right approach is part of the work. He discusses options with each person and decides together what fits best for their goals and situation. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to parenting needs, relationship goals, or personal coping skills. Online sessions offer flexibility for busy families and parents. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, while phone sessions provide an audio-only option. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or follow-up between longer meetings. These formats can make it easier to fit therapy into a family schedule and stay connected over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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