About Andrea
Andrea Stocker is an LCSW - a licensed clinical social worker in California - with about ten years of experience in social services. She draws on varied work in group homes, homeless services, housing programs, prisons, and community health. Andrea aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and life transitions.
Her approach centers on the whole person. She uses client-centered methods to create a respectful space where people can speak openly about relationships, intimacy, identity, and difficult feelings.
Background and approach
She is sex positive and comfortable supporting people in alternative relationship styles and those who identify as LGBTQ+ or who participate in BDSM communities. Andrea also brings focused experience with eating concerns and follows the Health at Every Size model. She helps people address body image, eating patterns, and related self-esteem struggles without pushing weight-focused narratives.
This fits alongside her work on sleep, career stress, and caregiver burnout. Her background includes supporting people in crisis settings and with long-term challenges such as chronic illness, grief, and trauma. She blends practical cognitive tools with mindfulness and narrative work to help people shift unhelpful patterns and make clearer choices.
Andrea offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She works collaboratively to set goals and pick approaches that match each individual’s needs and daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions and practical benefits
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what is said, and helps people name their goals and values. This approach supports work on relationships, self-esteem, and identity issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Andrea helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, anger, and stress. Sessions often include simple exercises and steps to try between meetings.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and grounding skills to handle strong emotions and difficult moments. It can be useful for anxiety, coping with life changes, and managing cravings or urges tied to addictions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Andrea will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that feel like a good fit. She adapts methods over time based on what is helping and what isn’t.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues during in-depth conversations. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work for quick check-ins, ongoing support, or if typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to schedule therapy around daily life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English