About Andrea
Andrea Dilley-Frame is a licensed professional counselor with twenty years of experience working in Virginia. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, mood disorders, addiction, and trauma. Her manner is straightforward and compassionate, aiming to make therapy feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She listens for how past relationships and family history shape current struggles. That helps her and the client spot patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and rooted in real-life changes rather than jargon or long lectures. Andrea uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral skills to shift unhelpful thinking and dialectical strategies to regulate intense emotions.
Attachment-informed work is used to look at relationship wounds that affect how someone connects with others. People often come for help with workplace stress, communication problems, or family of origin issues. She also supports those facing substance use concerns, self-harm risks, or complicated grief and trauma.
Her focus is on helping clients build safer routines and clearer boundaries. In sessions Andrea helps clients set small, doable goals and practices they can use between meetings. She emphasizes collaborative problem solving so progress fits a person’s life.
The approach is steady, practical, and focused on skills that can be applied right away.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Andrea blends cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based work to address both thoughts and relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship wounds affect current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Sessions will evolve as needs change, and the plan is adjusted together to stay useful and realistic.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people work face-to-face when schedules allow, phone works well if bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different life rhythms.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English