About D'andrea
D'andrea Washburn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 26 years of experience helping people navigate major life challenges. She creates a calm, respectful space where clients feel heard and encouraged to make changes at their own pace. Her manner is steady and attentive, aimed at building trust quickly so people can focus on practical steps forward.
She uses a trauma-informed lens to guide sessions. That means she prioritizes safety and collaboration while helping people understand how past events affect the present.
Background and approach
Sessions are skills-based and include practical behavioral tools that clients can use between meetings. Education and information are part of her approach. She offers psycho-education to explain why certain feelings and reactions happen, then works with clients on hands-on strategies to manage them.
When requested, she can bring a faith-sensitive perspective into the work. D'andrea emphasizes self-awareness and personal responsibility. She helps people identify patterns, build coping skills, and make choices that support day-to-day functioning.
The goal is stronger resilience and clearer direction during difficult transitions. Her focus areas include relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. She also has experience with topics such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, blended family issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and substance-related concerns.
Sessions are offered from Virginia and conducted in English.
Practical approaches for online healing
D'andrea uses evidence-based behavioral techniques that focus on real-world skills. These approaches teach clear, repeatable behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning, which can help with depression, panic, and mood challenges.She also works with trauma-informed methods that prioritize a steady, collaborative pace. This approach helps people understand how past events affect current reactions and lets them rebuild a sense of control step by step. When helpful, she will add psycho-education to explain why certain patterns occur and what to expect from treatment.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaboration continues over time as strategies are adjusted based on progress and feedback.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face when they prefer seeing the clinician. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can fit into busy schedules and make it easier to stay connected between longer meetings. These options help make counseling more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English