About Andrew
Andrew Scardina is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, low self-esteem, and career struggles. He uses a calm, direct style to help clients make practical changes. He is based in New York and has eleven years of experience as a clinician.
Andrew adapts the conversation and plan to each person. Sessions aim to clarify immediate problems and identify small steps that make a difference.
Background and approach
He draws on straightforward techniques to help with sleep, addiction-related concerns, intimacy issues, and life transitions. His background includes work with trauma and abuse, and he brings experience supporting people through grief, divorce, and fatherhood challenges. He also addresses concerns linked to chronic pain, disability, and issues around sexual expression such as BDSM and kink when they come up in therapy.
Andrew uses therapies that focus on the person in front of him and on practical change. He offers client-centered conversations alongside cognitive tools and skills training to reduce distress. Motivational strategies and solution-focused work help clients move toward clearer goals.
People who reach out can expect direct talk about what’s working and what isn’t. The aim is clearer coping strategies for mood, relationships, and purpose. The work is collaborative and geared toward practical progress.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Client-Centered Therapy puts your experience at the center of sessions and follows your priorities. It helps when you want someone who listens closely and helps you make sense of what you are feeling and where to begin.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changes in thinking and behavior. It offers practical tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, improve sleep, and tackle unhelpful habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It can help people who struggle with strong mood swings, relationship conflicts, or difficulty tolerating stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then try methods that match those needs. That collaboration helps shape a plan that feels useful and realistic.
Online sessions allow flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to practice skills, check progress, and stay consistent with appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English