Brenda Andrade, LPC-A

I draw from Person-Centered therapy to ensure you always feel respected and understood. I also incorporate Mindfulness-Based strategies to help you slow down, tune in, and respond to life’s challenges with greater ease. This combination allows our work to be both deeply relational and practically grounding.

In our first session, I’ll invite you to share as much or as little as feels right – there’s no pressure to have everything figured out. We’ll explore what’s bringing you to therapy, what matters most to you, and begin to get a sense of what healing or growth might look like for you. I also take time to introduce how mindfulness may play a role in our work, so you have a clear sense of what to expect moving forward.

What moves me most at the end of treatment is watching patients recognize their own courage. Many came to therapy unsure, hesitant and wondering if it was ‘too much’ or if they were ‘too far gone.’ By the time we close, they carry a quiet pride in the simple but radical act of choosing themselves. They often reflect on how hard it was to walk through that door and how grateful they are that they did. That moment of recognition – that they showed up for themselves when it mattered most – is often the most meaningful shift of all.

What I hear most often is that patients felt safe enough to go places in therapy they never expected to go. Not because I pushed them there, but because the space we built together made it feel possible. I hold space with compassion, but I’m also not afraid to reflect back what I notice, with care and without judgment. Patients often say that balance is what made the real work possible.