Andrea Vadnais, LCSW

Andrea Vadnais is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Oklahoma who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She writes simply and directly with parents in mind, offering steady support for common life strains. Andrea emphasizes each person’s strengths as a foundation for change and meets people where they are in the moment.

Andrea brings five years of hands-on experience working with children, adolescents, and parents in medical and community settings. She draws on several therapeutic approaches to address trauma, grief, and parenting concerns. Sessions often look at how past relationships affect current feelings and behaviors, and then build practical ways to cope in daily life.

Her work includes supporting people through grief and loss, healing from trauma and abuse, and navigating the stress that comes with life changes. She also helps clients address attachment issues, communication problems, and feelings of guilt and shame. Conversations are goal-oriented and grounded in clear steps you can try between sessions.

Andrea believes people are the experts in their own stories and offers guidance rather than directives. She aims to create a calm, respectful space to talk through what matters most. To begin, she asks a few simple questions to understand needs and priorities and then makes a collaborative plan.

If you want straightforward help for anxiety, stress, parenting strain, or recovery after trauma, Andrea works to make the process understandable and doable.

How attachment work and CBT translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current emotional responses and connection needs. It helps people understand why they react a certain way to stress and guides changes in how they relate to important people in their lives.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. This approach gives concrete tools for reducing anxiety and for managing daily stress with practical exercises you can practice between sessions.

Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on helping people process traumatic experiences at a comfortable pace and learn coping skills to reduce overwhelming reactions. It is often combined with other approaches to address both safety and healing.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences rather than prescribing a single route from the start.

If you are interested in online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people try strategies in real-life settings between meetings, which many find helpful for applying new skills.