Andrea Stocker, LCSW
Licensed in California · 10 years in practice
Andrea Stocker is a licensed clinical social worker in California with ten years of experience in social services.
License and registration
- LCSW, California
- 89643 · expires June 2027
- NPI
- 1174924435 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
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About Andrea
Andrea Stocker is a licensed clinical social worker in California with ten years of experience in social services. She draws on a range of settings including group homes, homeless services, housing programs, prisons, and community health to inform her approach. Andrea is sex-positive and accepts clients from LGBTQ+ and BDSM or alternative relationship communities.
She emphasizes treating the whole person, not just a diagnosis. Andrea uses a client-centered style to help people name what matters to them.
Background and approach
She often pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Mindfulness practices are used to build stress tolerance and reduce anxiety symptoms. Her background includes supporting people through depression, anger, anxiety, eating concerns, and addiction.
She follows the Health at Every Size model when addressing eating and body image issues. Her experience also spans grief, trauma, caregiver strain, and challenges tied to chronic illness and aging. Andrea brings practical problem solving to sessions.
She helps people set clear goals and try small changes between meetings. Motivational interviewing is part of how she supports people who feel stuck or ambivalent about change. In sessions she uses narrative methods to help clients rewrite the stories they tell about themselves.
That can be helpful for attachment issues, abandonment, and identity questions. Her work aims to be respectful and nonjudgmental while staying focused on what will make daily life easier.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Andrea lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Andrea names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Approaches that shape online sessions
Andrea blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s priorities and the relationship in the room, helping people feel heard and steering sessions around what they value. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going, and then tests small changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower stress and improve focus.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Andrea will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and what feels most useful. She treats the choice as flexible, adjusting methods as progress is made or circumstances change.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, while phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter updates, coaching between sessions, or a way to follow up on homework. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives and varied schedules.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Andrea help with?
She works with relationship problems, anger, depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, trauma, grief, and related issues like body image and sleep problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is client-centered and practical, often using cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative techniques to meet goals.
What relevant experience does she bring?
Andrea has about ten years in social services, with work in group homes, homeless services, housing, prisons, and community health settings.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is an LCSW, licensed in California, and provides services from that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online therapy.
How are sessions billed and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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