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Andrea Stocker, LCSW

  • Experience10 years
  • LocationCalifornia
  • Focus areasADHD, Relationship, and Anger
  • Therapy approachesClient-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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About Andrea

Andrea Stocker is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in California who draws on a client-centered framework to guide her work.

Background and approach

With 10 years in social services, she brings experience from group home care, homeless services, housing support, prison settings, and community health environments, which together inform a pragmatic and compassionate approach. Her practice emphasizes understanding the whole person and collaborating to set realistic goals.

Andrea commonly addresses depression, anger, anxiety, stress, addictions, and grief while also working with relationship and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping concerns, self-esteem and career challenges, and ADHD. She is sex-positive and comfortable supporting people from the LGBTQ+ community and those involved in alternative relationship structures including BDSM and kink culture.

Andrea also has experience with older adults and with matters linked to adoption, attachment, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and other complex, co-occurring concerns. Clients can expect an integrative style that blends client-centered listening with evidence-informed techniques.

Her background across varied care settings shapes practical strategies aimed at daily functioning, emotional regulation, and rebuilding connection and purpose.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Andrea often draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on empathic listening and collaboration to help clients feel understood and supported while exploring their goals and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy offers practical, structured techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop new coping skills useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and stress.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to learn about their needs, preferences, and goals, and then adapt techniques over time so the plan fits how the client wants to grow and change.

Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible and reduces travel time. These options allow continuity of care for people with busy lives or mobility limits and make it easier to maintain momentum between appointments while using therapeutic tools tailored to daily routines.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Andrea commonly address?
She works with a broad range of issues including depression, anxiety, anger, stress, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, eating and sleeping difficulties, self-esteem and career challenges, and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative, combining attentive listening with practical techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches.
What is Andrea's professional background?
She has 10 years of experience in social services with roles in group homes, homeless services, housing programs, prison settings, and community health, which contribute to a broad clinical perspective.
Where is Andrea licensed and based?
Andrea holds an LCSW credential and practices in California; her license number is CA LCSW 89643.
Which languages are offered or accepted for sessions?
Sessions are conducted in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available for working together?
She offers multiple online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and needs.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling appointments according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Relationship issuesAnger managementDepressionCoping with life changesADHD

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAntisocial personalityAttachment issuesBDSM, kink, and alternative sex cultureBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFertility issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMood disordersObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSexual dysfunctionSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

10+ years

Licensed

California

Languages

English

What Andrea can help with

Andrea Stocker works with clients on relationship issues, anger management, depression, coping with life changes, and ADHD.

Andrea works with older adults.

Andrea works with people in alternative relationships, the the LGBTQ+ community, and the BDSM community.

How Andrea approaches therapy

Andrea's clinical approaches include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.

Experience and training

Andrea is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in California, with 10 years of clinical experience.