About Andrea
Andrea Hickle is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. She aims to provide a warm, open space where clients feel heard and respected. Her style is practical and straightforward, focused on what will help day to day.
Andrea draws on seven years of experience in hospitals, schools, and independent practice. She has also done program and systems work, which informs how she thinks about the impact of environment and relationships on mental health.
Background and approach
This background shapes how she supports conversations about work, purpose, and life transitions. She has particular experience supporting people connected to adoption and foster care and those in blended family situations. Andrea helps clients navigate identity shifts, building trust, and communication during big family changes.
She also addresses caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and grief when those issues occur alongside parenting or work strains. Her work combines simple, evidence-based methods with a person-focused approach. Andrea uses strategies that help manage anxious thoughts, cope with low motivation, and set practical goals for career and life changes.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with steps clients can try between meetings. Andrea works from Indiana and conducts sessions in English. She encourages people to reach out when they feel ready to talk through what matters most and start making steady changes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Andrea uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, listening space where clients set the pace and priorities. This approach helps people clarify what matters and feel understood before deciding on next steps.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT offers concrete techniques for managing anxious thoughts, improving mood, and tackling low motivation. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when people need practical tools for handling strong emotions, improving relationships, and building tolerance for stress.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Andrea works with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time so sessions stay relevant and useful rather than sticking to a single plan.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you talk face to face from wherever you are, phone calls can be a good shorter check-in option, and messaging formats support ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and other commitments while maintaining regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English