About Andrea
Andrea Bray Ryan greets people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about what comes next. She is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who offers steady, practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. Andrea speaks plainly and meets people where they are without judgment.
Andrea draws on six years of clinical experience working in behavioral health and independent practice. She helps clients build coping skills, relaxation practices, and self-regulation tools that can be used in daily life.
Background and approach
She also uses mind-body approaches such as yoga-informed strategies when they fit a person's needs. Her work combines practical thinking about thoughts and behaviors with attention to emotions and relationships. That means pairing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas with emotionally-focused and trauma-focused approaches, alongside mindfulness practices.
Sessions often include skill practice, problem-solving, and checking how changes feel in relationships and at home. Andrea aims for a collaborative style. She treats each person as a whole individual and invites them to set goals together.
She focuses on strengths and on small, sustainable steps toward change. People contact her for a wide range of concerns beyond mood and anxiety, including addiction, parenting stress, bipolar and ADHD-related challenges, gender dysphoria and LGBT issues, grief, and family-of-origin patterns. She provides video, phone, chat, and text-based sessions for clients in Texas.
How Andrea's Approaches Fit Online Work
Andrea uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into practical steps to try between sessions.She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to address the effects of traumatic experiences. This approach focuses on understanding how trauma affects emotions and behavior, and on building strategies to manage symptoms and increase safety in everyday life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Andrea works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts sessions over time based on what helps and what feels workable in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English