About Andrea
Andrea Bercos is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and relationship strain. He also supports concerns around grief, intimacy, eating issues, parenting stress, self-esteem, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. He works with LGBT-related concerns including gender dysphoria and the gender transition process.
Andrea keeps sessions straightforward and practical. He creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can say what they need to say.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what is happening now and on small, doable steps to feel better. He draws on client-centered methods to listen and reflect what matters most to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps change unhelpful thinking and habits.
Motivational Interviewing supports readiness to change for addictions and substance concerns. Andrea’s background includes work in community mental health, substance abuse treatment centers, domestic violence and sexual assault programs, public schools, and independent practice. That range gives him experience with trauma, self-harm, sexual assault, and complex addiction patterns.
Sessions typically look like honest conversation and practical problem-solving. He uses narrative approaches to help people reframe painful stories. Trauma-focused work is available for those processing past abuse or violence.
Andrea holds an Illinois LCSW license and has long experience as a clinician supporting people through tough life changes. He aims to be affirming, warm, and empowering while helping clients set clear goals and take manageable steps forward.
How Andrea’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Andrea uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to each person. That means sessions start with listening and reflecting so goals come from the client. This approach helps with relationship concerns, self-esteem, grief, and LGBT-related questions.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT provides hands-on tools for anxiety, depression, eating issues, and many forms of addiction. It breaks big problems into smaller skills that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Andrea works with clients to choose or mix methods based on needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. Together they check progress and adjust the plan as needed rather than sticking to one fixed method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction when that helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or extra accountability between appointments. These options make it easier to attend sessions from different places and on varied schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English