About Andrea
Andrea Phillips is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Missouri. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and low self-worth. Andrea speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
Andrea uses straightforward conversation to help clients name what feels hard and find small, usable steps forward. She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths into the work.
Background and approach
Her sessions tend to emphasize practical skills alongside careful listening. Across four years of practice she has supported people through loss, overwhelming emotions, and painful memories. She also helps with anger, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and life transitions.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and issues that affect first responders and veterans. Andrea combines client-centered work with tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and emotionally-focused techniques. She also includes EMDR when appropriate to address trauma-related memories.
The aim is to use methods that fit the person and the problem, not a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions are offered in English for people located in Missouri. Andrea encourages steady, small progress and supports clients as they build confidence, cope with change, and reclaim a sense of balance.
Working together online with practical approaches
Andrea uses client-centered therapy to build a trusting conversation where the client's experience guides each session. This approach focuses on understanding a person's perspective, identifying strengths, and letting the client's goals shape the work.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test practical ways to change patterns of feeling and behavior. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. EMDR is another tool Andrea may offer for processing distressing memories tied to trauma; it involves structured recall paired with guided processing to reduce emotional charge.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Andrea will talk with each person about goals, preferred pace, and which methods feel most comfortable, then adapt the plan together in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone appointments, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options allow flexibility for different schedules and preferences - video for face-to-face conversation, phone when bandwidth is limited, quick check-ins by text, or message-based work that fits between other commitments. Online formats make it easier to keep continuity of care while matching the style that works best for the client.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English