About Andrea
Andrea Strayer is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana who focuses on practical, solution-oriented therapy. She draws on eight years of professional experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and ADHD. Andrea uses straightforward steps to identify problems and build plans that people can actually use.
She helps clients who are dealing with family tension, communication breakdowns, and the strain of caregiving. She also supports people facing chronic illness or pain, workplace stress, and the emotional fallout of separation and divorce.
Background and approach
Issues like panic attacks, social anxiety, low self-worth, and impulsivity are part of her caseload as well. Andrea works from a solution-focused perspective. That means she and the client map a clear goal, pick practical strategies, and try them out between sessions.
Sessions tend to emphasize small, achievable changes that add up over time rather than lengthy analysis. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Social Work from The Ohio State University. Andrea combines clinical training with hands-on experience to keep therapy useful and readable for busy lives.
People who want direct, goal-focused help often find her style useful. She aims to support clients as they work toward clearer thinking, steadier moods, and better day-to-day coping. Meetings are geared to real-life problems and steps you can take next.
Practical therapy approaches and flexible online sessions
Andrea practices solution-focused methods that help people set a clear, short-term goal and try specific steps to reach it. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, workplace problems, and relationship communication issues because it focuses on what can change now.She also uses evidence-based techniques that target mood and anxiety symptoms by teaching coping skills and simple behavior changes. These strategies help with panic attacks, depression, and managing impulsivity by breaking problems into manageable tasks and practice exercises.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Andrea partners with each client to review their needs, goals, and preferences, then chooses and adapts techniques that feel practical and doable. That collaborative process helps make therapy relevant and personally tailored.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video works well for in-depth conversations, phone is good when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit short check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English