Andrea Aurino, LMSW

Andrea Aurino is a licensed therapist (LMSW) in Michigan with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, and relationship or family concerns. Andrea favors a warm, person-centered approach that keeps conversations practical and focused on what matters now.

Clients can expect a calm, non-judgmental space to talk through difficult feelings. Andrea helps people build skills to manage anxiety, improve communication, and recover from upsetting past events. She also addresses issues like caregiver stress, codependency, and the challenges of blended families.

Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape sessions around each person’s needs. That can mean breaking problems into smaller parts, rewriting unhelpful stories about oneself, or identifying concrete steps to try between sessions. She explains approaches in simple terms and adapts them to the person's rhythm.

Andrea has particular experience helping people through midlife changes, adoption and foster care concerns, and the long-term effects of trauma and abuse. She also supports those dealing with abandonment, divorce, and family-of-origin patterns that keep repeating.

Throughout the work she aims to strengthen coping skills, increase self-understanding, and help people make practical changes. To begin, clients use the platform’s Start Therapy process to match and schedule sessions based on availability.

How Andrea’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy

Andrea uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and practice new behaviors that reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT focuses on small, testable changes and skills that can be practiced between sessions.

Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from painful stories they tell about their lives. In this approach Andrea helps a person reframe events and notice strengths that were previously overlooked.

Solution-Focused Therapy centers on concrete goals and the next small steps toward them. Sessions often focus on what is already working and building on those successes.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Andrea collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, needs, and preferences rather than assuming one method fits all.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people use less bandwidth by choosing audio-only interactions or schedule shorter sessions for focused issues, depending on the options available.