About Gemma
Dr. Gemma Andaya is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Nevada. She draws on eight years of experience helping people navigate trauma, relationship struggles, grief, and big life changes.
Her approach is warm and non-judgmental and focused on practical steps clients can use between sessions. She uses evidence-based techniques alongside mindfulness and somatic awareness to help people feel steadier in their bodies and clearer in their thinking. Sessions are adapted to each person’s situation and paced to match what they can handle.
Background and approach
The goal is to build self-trust and emotional resilience over time. Dr. Andaya pays close attention to patterns that show up again and again, such as attachment wounds, codependency, or problems with control and impulsivity.
She also addresses issues like body image, fertility-related stress, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Conversations focus on concrete tools for communication and coping. Clients can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth style that balances exploration with skill-building.
Dr. Andaya explains ideas plainly and checks in often about progress and goals. This helps people leave sessions with a clear next step.
Her work includes support for forgiveness, working through shame and guilt, and managing dissociation when it comes up. Over time she helps people make sense of past hurts so they can try new ways of relating and living.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Dr. Andaya uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside mindfulness and somatic awareness. Mindfulness involves simple attention practices and grounding exercises to reduce reactivity; it can help with anxiety, shame, and emotional overwhelm. Somatic awareness focuses on bodily sensation work to notice where stress lives in the body and to develop calming responses, which is useful for trauma and dissociation.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to identify goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients and therapist check progress together and pick techniques that match the person’s pace and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people managing busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, between-session processing, or ongoing skill practice without scheduling a full session. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines while keeping treatment consistent and focused.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English