About Andrea
Andrea Levitan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 18 years of experience who helps people with relationship issues, parenting stress, depression, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, and career concerns. She works with people dealing with intimacy and communication problems and those who feel stuck by family-of-origin patterns.
Her style is down-to-earth and encouraging, aimed at helping clients take small steps that add up to real change. Andrea encourages people to make a clear commitment to their emotional growth.
Background and approach
She acknowledges that starting therapy can feel hard and uncomfortable. In sessions she focuses on practical skills and on identifying buried emotions so they can be released in a manageable way. Her approach mixes cognitive behavioral techniques, emotion-focused work, and relationship-centered methods such as Imago therapy.
She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing tools to help people notice unhelpful patterns and build new habits. Sessions emphasize concrete strategies clients can practice between meetings. Andrea brings a broad set of interests to her work, including an understanding of how movement and nutrition affect mood - she holds a personal trainer certification in addition to her counseling degree.
That combination means she often helps clients create simple daily routines for better emotional balance. She trained at Avila University, earning a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, and is licensed in Kansas and Missouri. Conversations with Andrea are attentive and practical, aimed at uncovering strengths and turning them into an individualized plan for progress.
Approaches that guide online sessions and relationship work
Andrea commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful thinking. It can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into small, manageable steps. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on emotions behind relationship patterns and helps people and couples identify needs and respond to each other more effectively.She also uses Imago Relationship Therapy to address communication and connection in partnerships. Imago helps partners understand how past experiences shape current interactions and offers structured exercises to improve dialogue and closeness. Together these approaches give concrete tools and deeper emotion work for relationship and personal concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Andrea will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. She collaborates with clients to try methods and adjust the plan when needed, so therapy fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for full conversations and nonverbal cues, phone works well for lower bandwidth or when being on camera is not desired, and chat or messaging can suit brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English