About Andrea
Andrea Walker is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 21 years of practice. She sees adults and adolescents and offers straightforward help for stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and life changes. Andrea keeps sessions practical and focused on what the client needs now.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She uses client-centered methods to build trust and to shape treatment around each person’s goals.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people learn skills to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete tools for emotion regulation when feelings run high. Andrea has particular experience with trauma and abuse, including domestic violence and neglect.
She also supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, relationship conflict, body image concerns, and work stress. Problems like dissociation, co-morbid conditions, and complicated family-of-origin issues are part of her background. She offers creative interventions when words aren’t enough, such as interactive play techniques adapted for online use.
EMDR is one of the trauma-focused methods she uses when appropriate. Sessions aim to teach coping skills, improve communication, and reduce distress over time. Based in Montana, Andrea draws on two decades of experience to tailor treatment plans.
She explains options plainly and helps people choose approaches that fit their pace and preferences.
Online therapy with practical, trauma-focused approaches
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and priorities; the therapist listens closely and adapts sessions to what the client needs most. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes treatment around real-life concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches clear skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving relationships when emotions feel overwhelming. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review concerns, preferences, and goals and then recommend options to try together. Clients can experiment with techniques and adjust the plan as progress or new needs emerge. Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging provide quick support between sessions or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to maintain regular contact and practice skills between meetings.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana
- Languages
- English