Andrea Oberhauser, LPC Associate

Andrea´s relational and attachment focus centers on creating a safe, welcoming space where hard things can be talked about. Andrea supports individuals and couples to curiously question their definition of the problem and look closely at what is causing distress. She firmly believes that with the strength of the therapeutic relationship, therapy can be a powerful tool through which couples and individuals create the conditions for a more meaningful life.

As a couples therapist, Andrea uses Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to collaborate with both partners to be able to understand their patterns and find practical ways to engage in deeper connection with one another. Through this lens, couples will work towards understanding how and why they get to feeling disconnected, including looking at early attachment figures, trauma, and shame. Andrea is experienced in working with bi-cultural couples, collaborating with partners to navigate the beauty and difficulties of intersecting identities. With couples, Andrea is trained to work with trust-related issues, premarital counseling, nontraditional relationships, difficulties in communication and overall relationship well-being.

Andrea works from a psychodynamic and relational frame, emphasizing the importance of the therapeutic relationship as well as early attachment figures. Having grown up in four different countries herself, Andrea is deeply attuned to how our environment plays a role in shaping who we are as individuals and how we interact within a system. With individuals, Andrea works with clients going through life-transitions, grief, relationship issues, anxiety, gender identity, depression, self-esteem, and body-image. In her work with children and families, Andrea looks closely at how the family system is working and how each family member holds a part in what seems to be causing concern. Andrea is warm, deeply caring, and works with the assumption that going to therapy is hard but can be an extremely rewarding process. She works in both English and Spanish.

Andrea is supervised by Kimberley Mead, LPC-S.