About Andrea
Andrea Joyce is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Clinician practicing in Nebraska. She brings 23 years of experience to her work and focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and life transitions. Andrea uses straightforward, practical methods to help people find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
She frames therapy around the person's strengths and current needs. Sessions aim to meet people where they are and build skills that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Andrea emphasizes forward motion while acknowledging how past experiences shape present struggles. Her background includes work in agency and university settings and collaboration with law enforcement, foster care, and juvenile court in prior face-to-face practice. This variety of settings has shaped a flexible, real-world approach to common problems like mood disorders, PTSD, and relationship stress.
Andrea draws on a mix of client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused methods. Those approaches are used to address issues such as ADHD, anger, low self-esteem, and codependency, as well as life purpose and coping with major changes. In sessions she aims to create a steady, respectful space where goals are practical and achievable.
People can expect a collaborative process that emphasizes small steps, skill building, and realistic plans for change.
How Andrea’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. The therapist listens, asks questions, and helps people identify what matters most to them and what small steps to try next. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; it teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that feed anxiety, depression, and mood problems. Trauma-focused therapy addresses traumatic memories and their effects in manageable ways, helping people reduce their ongoing symptoms and rebuild routines.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Andrea works collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan as progress and goals evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy easier to fit into busy days. Video is useful for fuller conversations and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth or camera use is limited, chat can help with short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility for different schedules, energy levels, and practical constraints.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas
- Languages
- English