Andrea Bednarz , LCMHC

Andrea Bednarz is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) in New Hampshire with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, relationship problems, parenting strain, and major life changes. Andrea’s approach is direct and practical, aimed at reducing the patterns that keep people from feeling more like themselves.

She often works with people coping with family conflict, abandonment wounds, attachment struggles, and blended family dynamics. Chronic illness, chronic pain, eating concerns, and codependency are also areas she addresses. Andrea pays attention to everyday coping habits such as numbing with shopping, gaming, or substances and helps people replace those behaviors with clearer choices.

Sessions are meant to feel manageable, not overwhelming. Andrea says therapy will be honest and sometimes hard, but she focuses on making the process doable so people can keep showing up. She offers straightforward tools for boundary setting, communication, and handling grief that doesn’t always get recognized, like pet loss or disenfranchised grief.

Her style mixes practical strategies with attention to family of origin issues and patterns that repeat in relationships. Andrea helps clients notice patterns, practice different responses, and try new ways of connecting. Over time the aim is to move from coping by avoidance toward living with more intention.

Andrea provides services in English and accepts international clients. Her work is suited to people seeking steady, experienced guidance through life transitions, family difficulties, and stress that feels unrelenting.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online care

Andrea draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical change. One common approach she uses helps people spot and shift patterns of avoidance and numbing by teaching concrete coping skills and behavioral experiments to try between sessions. This approach suits anxiety, stress, and habits like excessive scrolling, shopping, or substance use.

Another approach emphasizes attachment and family of origin work to understand why relationship patterns repeat. That work looks at early connections and helps people practice different ways of relating and setting boundaries, which can reduce repeated conflict and feelings of emptiness.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Andrea collaborates with each person to identify goals and preferences, then adjusts the methods used as needed. She helps clients weigh options and tries strategies in session so people can see what fits them best.

Online formats make this collaborative work flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone sessions can be easier when a shorter check-in is needed, live chat works for brief exchanges and quick coping support, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and practice new skills in real time.