Andrea Walker, LICSW, LCSW

Andrea Walker is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of experience supporting adults, adolescents, and families through a wide range of life challenges. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials - LICSW stands for Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and LCSW stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and maintains licensure across multiple states. Andrea also holds certification in Interactive Play Therapy, which enables her to use creative, nonverbal interventions when finding words is difficult.

She specializes in trauma treatment while offering care for stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, parenting challenges, eating and sleeping difficulties, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and many other clinical issues. Her background includes work with survivors of childhood abuse, domestic violence, neglect, and the effects of separation and divorce, as well as support for attachment and behavior-management concerns. Andrea brings focused attention to both acute and long-standing difficulties, including compassion fatigue and complex co-morbid presentations.

Andrea draws from a broad clinical toolkit to tailor treatment to each person s needs. Her approaches include client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) including trauma-focused CBT, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness-based techniques, motivational interviewing, solution-focused methods, and trauma-focused therapy. She also integrates interactive play and online sand tray techniques when appropriate to help clients access healing through creative means.

Practical supports and skills-building are woven into her work to help people practice coping strategies, improve communication, and develop routines that promote emotional regulation. As virtual care has expanded, Andrea has incorporated many online tools and interventions to bridge the gap between in-person and remote sessions, offering multiple ways to engage in therapy that align with clients needs.