About Andrew
Andrew Oxman greets people with a calm, steady presence and a practical focus on everyday problems. He is a licensed mental health counselor in Massachusetts with 26 years of clinical experience. Andrew listens closely, helps identify what matters most, and works with people to set realistic next steps.
He uses a client-centered style that centers the person's own goals and pace. Sessions often include reflective conversation, gentle challenges, and simple exercises to try between meetings.
Background and approach
He also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used when people want to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Andrew mixes that with mindfulness practices to help people manage stress, anxiety, and low mood.
He can offer writing prompts or role-playing to practice new responses in a safe space. Andrew has supported people through grief, career changes, family conflict, parenting strain, and recovery from emotional abuse. He also addresses issues such as abandonment, caregiver stress, codependency, and forgiveness.
He does not provide treatment for addictions, sexual trauma, or eating disorders and recommends other care for those concerns. Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person. Andrew can discuss how spirituality fits into therapy when that is important to the person.
The work aims to produce steady, usable changes that fit daily life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why certain reactions come up in close relationships and find kinder ways to relate to others and themselves. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's goals and pace; the therapist follows the client's lead, offers deep listening, and reflects back what is heard to help people clarify their needs and values.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will decide together which methods fit best based on current needs, personal goals, and what feels comfortable. That may mean blending attachment ideas with practical CBT skills or adding mindfulness exercises to manage stress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice new interactions. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins, homework, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English