- Solution-focused
- Cognitive behavioral
- Forensic consultation
About Andrea
Andrea McLellan, LMFT, brings 14 years of clinical work to therapy sessions. She focuses on helping people understand the roots of their struggles and set realistic goals. Andrea emphasizes practical, solution-focused strategies alongside cognitive behavioral ideas to reduce distress and build coping skills.
Andrea spends time identifying the patterns that keep people stuck. She addresses stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues related to relationships, parenting, and intimacy. She also works with concerns such as addiction, sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, career strain, and bipolar challenges.
Her background includes university teaching in psychology and forensic consultation on sexual assault and child abuse cases. This work brought a close look at family systems and the effects of generational trauma. Those experiences inform how she attends to complex histories and safety concerns in therapy.
Andrea favors clear goal-setting and steps that people can try between sessions. She uses solution-focused techniques to set short-term targets and cognitive behavioral methods to change harmful thought and behavior patterns. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, narrative approaches, and psychodynamic ideas when they fit the person’s needs.
Outside of clinical work, she enjoys outdoor activities like hiking, bird-watching, and camping. Andrea invites people to begin by considering what they most want to change and to use therapy as a place to build awareness, responsibility, courage, and forgiveness.
Andrea spends time identifying the patterns that keep people stuck. She addresses stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues related to relationships, parenting, and intimacy. She also works with concerns such as addiction, sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, career strain, and bipolar challenges.
Her background includes university teaching in psychology and forensic consultation on sexual assault and child abuse cases. This work brought a close look at family systems and the effects of generational trauma. Those experiences inform how she attends to complex histories and safety concerns in therapy.
Andrea favors clear goal-setting and steps that people can try between sessions. She uses solution-focused techniques to set short-term targets and cognitive behavioral methods to change harmful thought and behavior patterns. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, narrative approaches, and psychodynamic ideas when they fit the person’s needs.
Outside of clinical work, she enjoys outdoor activities like hiking, bird-watching, and camping. Andrea invites people to begin by considering what they most want to change and to use therapy as a place to build awareness, responsibility, courage, and forgiveness.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.