Andrea Mathews
Andrea Mathews
Credentials: LPC, NCC
Practice: Andrea Mathews, LPC, LLC
Phone: (205) 328-0780
E-mail: andrea@andreamathews.com
Location: 2112 11th Avenue South, Suite 522 Birmingham, AL 35205
Website: https://www.andreamathews.com/
Insurance Accepted: BlueCross and BlueShield
Fees: $100 - $120
Specializing In—
Relationship Issues, Transpersonal Concerns, Gender Concerns, Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, Grief
About
Andrea Mathews has over 30 years' experience as a practitioner and supervisor of others practicing in the Mental Health field, having held such job titles as Counselor, Family Therapist, Program Director, Clinical Director, and Clinical Consultant.
Currently and for the past 23 years she has run a thriving solo private practice in Birmingham, Alabama, in which she offers both Transpersonal and Cognitive Therapy to individuals, couples, families and groups. Therapy, as defined here, is an opportunity for clients to become acquainted with feelings, thoughts, and patterns of behavior, including relational patterns, both effective and ineffective, and to challenge themselves to become authentic, living effectively and happily.
Therefore, authenticity, choice and meaning are key concepts that will be utilized in the therapeutic endeavor. These concepts assist us in exploring what is true and what is false in our encounters both with self and other. We may use role play, interactive and experiential relational dynamics in couples and family therapy, art, poetry, metaphor, story, depth-oriented therapy, experiential dynamic, internal dialogue and/or cognitive restructuring in the therapeutic effort. The length of and the outcome of therapy is largely a matter of individual client choice. The harder the client works, the better the outcome.
Andrea’s approach is based on the theory that as children we all learn, through a kind of osmosis of attachment to family and society, to put on certain masks and costumes, which when used repeatedly become patterns of behavior, thought and feeling. In other words, we have learned to perform a role. In the process of repeatedly performing this role, we have come to believe that this role is who we are.
Andrea Mathews is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and a Certified Counseling Supervisor, a National Certified Counselor, and a National Board for Certified Counselors' (NBCC) Approved Provider of Continuing Education, with a PhD in interfaith/interspiritual studies and a MA in Agency Counseling.