Andrea’s extensive counseling training over the years includes the modalities of Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Intuition Training, Enneagram, Energy Psychology with EFT, and more. As a psychotherapist, she is also a Hypnotherapist and Certified EMDR practitioner. Andrea is a member of the California Association for Marriage and Family Therapists and was trained by the same trainers of John Bradshaw, who is a leader in Inner Child healing.

A recent report about helping teens says: “understand why their behaviors are negative and teach them to cope better.”  I disagree!  My approach is to remove the cause of the pain and change your teen’s negative beliefs and thoughts to self-enhancing beliefs and thoughts!

I work with teens to uncover the root cause of their feelings, problems, and pain and remove it.  As a result, your teen’s self-defeating beliefs such as: “I don`t matter, I am not good enough, I can`t trust anyone, no one cares,” are removed.  It is these beliefs are causing the self-defeating patterns that so negatively affecting the life of your teen and those around him/her.  Remove the negative belief and the feeling that goes with it, and you remove the self-defeating pattern.