- Communication skills
- Guilt and shame
- Coping strategies
About Andrea
Andrea Chvatal is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas with four years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, low self-esteem, and life changes. She also addresses communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and post-traumatic stress.
Andrea focuses on practical skills people can use between sessions. She helps clients build clearer communication, stronger coping strategies, and better self-regard. Conversations are straightforward and aim to identify small, manageable steps forward.
Her approach blends evidence-based techniques with attention to personal values, including faith-informed perspectives when requested. Sessions often include talking through difficult feelings, testing out new behaviors, and reflecting on how past experiences affect current life.
Andrea works with people who want help sorting relationship tensions, navigating major transitions, or reducing persistent worry. She guides clients through exercises that target control concerns and patterns that keep guilt and shame active.
In Texas, she practices as an LPC and uses that credential in her work. People who choose to work with her start by describing the problem and what they'd like to change. From there she and the client set practical goals and regular check-ins to track progress.
How Andrea uses evidence-based methods online
Andrea works from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real problems and clear skills. One common approach she uses involves identifying unhelpful thinking and testing those thoughts with practical experiments. This helps with anxiety, persistent guilt, and negative self-beliefs by breaking down thoughts into smaller, testable pieces.Another approach centers on behavioral skills - practicing communication, setting boundaries, and building coping routines. These exercises are concrete and meant to be tried between sessions to change day-to-day interactions and reduce relationship tension.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Andrea will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adapts what she uses based on what is helping and what feels workable in daily life.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, support shorter check-ins when schedules demand it, and allow people to meet without travel. Licensed professionals can often combine talking, behavioral assignments, and communication practice in virtual sessions to keep progress moving.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
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Experience
4+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she focus on?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, and coping with life changes, plus related areas like communication problems and control issues.
How does she approach guilt and shame?
She uses practical conversations and exercises to help people name and work through guilt and shame, and to try out new ways of responding to those feelings.
What is her clinical background?
She has four years of experience as a practicing therapist working with a range of relationship and emotional concerns.
What credential and region apply?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas.
In what language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions paid for?
Session cost varies by location and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.