Andrea Stocker, LCSW

Andrea Stocker is an LCSW in California with ten years of experience in social services. She draws on varied settings to offer straightforward, person-focused care. Her work often centers on depression, anxiety, anger, and life transitions such as midlife shifts and career change.

She uses a client-centered approach that starts by listening and building what the person already knows about themselves. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools help break out of patterns that maintain anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness practices are introduced to reduce reactivity and improve emotional awareness.

Andrea's background includes work in a group home, homeless services, housing programs, a prison, and a community health setting. That range gives her a practical sense of everyday stressors and how social systems affect mental health. She also has experience supporting older adults.

She identifies as sex positive and is comfortable working with people in alternative relationship styles and members of the LGBTQ+ community, including those involved in BDSM and kink culture. Andrea follows the Health at Every Size approach when addressing eating concerns and body image.

Her approach is collaborative and goal-focused. Sessions typically combine listening with concrete skills practice and small experiments between meetings. People are encouraged to set realistic steps and check progress together over time.

Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online work

Andrea uses client-centered therapy to begin. That means she focuses on what each person brings and follows their priorities while offering guidance. This approach helps when untangling relationship concerns, midlife decisions, or problems with self esteem.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is another common tool. It breaks larger problems into smaller, testable steps and teaches techniques for managing anxious or depressive thoughts. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, anger, and many daily struggles where behavior change helps.

Mindfulness work is offered to increase emotional awareness and reduce reactivity. Simple breathing and attention practices are used to anchor moments of high stress and improve sleep and focus.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences, and will adjust techniques over time based on what helps most.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It can also let people practice skills in the settings where they live and work, then bring observations back to sessions for discussion.