About Andrienne
Andrienne Horton-Smith is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with 24 years of experience. She focuses on helping people understand their sense of self-worth and on processing emotional stress from anxiety, depression, and trauma. She uses straightforward, goal-oriented work to address stress and relationship strain.
Sessions often involve talking through what is happening now, identifying patterns, and trying small changes that can make daily life easier. Andrienne also supports people managing life transitions and workplace pressures.
Background and approach
Trauma and abuse are areas she pays careful attention to. She helps people work through post-traumatic stress and generational trauma at a pace they can handle. When needed, sessions include practices aimed at reducing symptoms and improving coping skills.
Motivational and solution-focused approaches are part of her style. That means she helps clients set practical goals and draw on their own strengths to meet them. Cognitive behavioral ideas are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding.
Her tone is supportive and direct. She treats each person as the expert on their life and partners with them to find clearer direction. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step more manageable.
How her approaches translate to online work
Andrienne commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy in online sessions. CBT helps people notice and test thoughts that feed anxiety or low mood, then try small behavior changes to see if things improve. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes setting clear, short-term goals and identifying practical steps that move a person toward those goals.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and then tailor techniques together with you. This collaborative planning makes it easier to try methods that feel useful in everyday life.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls can fit into a short break, live chat works for quicker check-ins, and text-based messaging lets you continue work between sessions. These options provide flexibility so scheduling and communication can match your routine.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English