Andrea Bragdon , LMHC, LCPC

Andrea Bragdon is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with seven years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, straightforward style and focuses on practical steps that help people feel more steady in day-to-day life. Andrea works with a wide range of concerns and has a clear interest in women’s issues within that work. Her approach centers on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness practice, balanced with client-centered listening. She draws on solution-focused techniques and motivational interviewing to set achievable goals and map small changes. Sessions tend to emphasize what someone can do between meetings to feel better. Andrea has significant experience supporting people who have faced trauma, including emotional, sexual, or physical abuse, and those coping with post-traumatic stress. She also helps with mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, anxiety, low self-esteem, life transitions, career frustrations, and intimacy-related concerns. Additional focus areas include body image, codependency, and alternative relationship structures. Clients can expect a warm, nonjudgmental tone and practical tools rather than long lectures. Andrea adapts her conversation and plans to each person’s needs and life circumstances. She blends coaching-style encouragement with therapeutic techniques to help clients reach short-term goals and build longer-term coping skills. Andrea practices from Florida, holds the FL LMHC and ME LCPC credentials, and offers sessions in English. She is open to working with international clients using a mix of online formats.

How mindfulness and ACT translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without being driven by them and identify actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, life changes, and managing difficult feelings in relationships.

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and creating space for a person to find their own solutions. This approach supports people processing trauma, identity questions, and self-esteem struggles by centering their perspective.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to calm the mind and increase present-moment awareness. It pairs well with ACT and is often used when stress, chronic pain, or rumination make daily life harder.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Andrea will discuss goals and try methods that fit a client’s needs and preferences, adjusting strategies over time in collaboration with the client. That collaborative process helps identify what techniques feel most useful.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is helpful for full sessions and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins, and messaging or live chat can support quick reflections, homework, or shorter coaching moments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue progress between meetings.