About Andrea
Andrea Schmidt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of practice in Colorado who helps people facing addiction, trauma, relationship strain, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, and related concerns. She speaks plainly and focuses on building awareness of how thoughts and reactions shape behavior. Sessions aim to help people notice patterns and choose different responses.
Andrea uses a relational, client-centered style. She listens first and then guides conversations toward practical steps.
Background and approach
Her work often focuses on clarifying why people react the way they do and on adjusting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Her approach blends attachment-focused ideas with solution-focused strategies and cognitive tools. That means she pays attention to how early relationships influence current reactions while helping people set small, achievable goals.
She also uses motivational interviewing to support people who want to change addictive behaviors. In session, Andrea emphasizes concrete practices over jargon. Expect focused conversations about what is working, what is not, and realistic next steps.
She offers techniques for managing stress, improving communication, and coping with grief or life changes. Andrea supports people dealing with career strain, self-esteem concerns, intimacy issues, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. She also works with those impacted by adoption or foster care, attachment wounds, domestic violence, and substance use problems.
People who choose her describe therapy as straightforward and goal-oriented. She frames progress as a step-by-step process and encourages active participation in change. Andrea welcomes questions about approach and how sessions are structured.
How Andrea’s approach translates to online therapy
Andrea combines Attachment-Based ideas, Client-Centered methods, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in ways that work well online. Attachment-Based work focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people notice and shift those patterns over time. Client-Centered methods prioritize the person’s own goals and pace, so sessions start with listening and follow what matters most to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks down thoughts, feelings, and actions into manageable pieces and provides concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Andrea will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they pick techniques that fit the situation and adapt them as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice new communication in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or recovery routines while keeping the same therapeutic focus.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English