D'andrea Washburn, LPC

D'andrea Washburn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 26 years of clinical experience. She creates a respectful, encouraging space where people feel heard and ready to make changes. Her manner is calm and attentive, and she focuses on working with each person as an individual.

She uses a trauma-informed stance that emphasizes safety and collaboration. Sessions are skills-based and include behavioral tools and psycho-education. Practical strategies are tailored to the specific needs brought to therapy.

D'andrea takes a broad view of well-being and can include a faith-sensitive perspective when a client wants that. She emphasizes building self-awareness and personal responsibility. The goal is to help people gain insight and strengthen their ability to handle life day to day.

Her clinical focus includes relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. She also addresses related issues such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric matters, blended family issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and substance concerns.

Clients may also find support for mood disorders, obsessive and compulsive symptoms, panic, postpartum depression, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and post-traumatic stress. She is based in Virginia and works in English. If you are unsure how her approach fits your needs, consider the Start Therapy button to begin the matching process.

Approaches that guide online work and next steps

She describes her practice as skills-based and trauma-informed, using evidence-based behavioral techniques to build practical coping tools and teach helpful routines. These behavioral approaches focus on changing unhelpful patterns through step-by-step skill practice and are often used for mood disorders, panic, and compulsive behaviors.

She also uses psycho-education to explain how symptoms develop and what can help reduce them. That means clients learn simple, research-informed concepts about thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, then try small experiments in daily life to see what works.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration can include discussing faith-sensitive perspectives when the client wants to include that element.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into a busy routine, for example by avoiding travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a workday, or reducing the need to be on camera. Ask about formats and scheduling during the matching and scheduling step so sessions will fit into everyday life.