Andrea Throndson , LMFT

Andrea Throndson is a California-licensed LMFT with 14 years of clinical experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship challenges, grief, and depression. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, she draws on training that focuses on how relationships and life circumstances shape emotional health while attending to each person as an individual with unique strengths and priorities.

Andrea brings particular expertise in grief, addictions, and trauma, and she is certified in DBT, which is Dialectical Behavior Therapy - a skills-based approach that helps people manage intense emotions, improve interpersonal effectiveness, and tolerate distress. Her work emphasizes practical coping strategies alongside compassionate exploration of underlying patterns, whether those arise from attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, communication difficulties, control issues, or life transitions such as divorce and midlife change.

She approaches therapy from a strengths-based perspective, honoring the idea that clients are experts in their own stories and already possess resources to build on. Andrea recognizes that taking the first step toward help takes courage and aims to provide steady, respectful support for people navigating recovery, relationship repair, and meaning after loss.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care

Andrea Throndson uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a practical, skills-focused approach that teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness - tools that are especially helpful for intense anxiety, impulsivity, and patterns that contribute to addictions. She also applies trauma-informed methods that help people process difficult experiences and reduce the ways past events interfere with daily functioning, including grief-related distress and relationship trauma.

Choosing the right therapeutic approach is part of the work itself. Andrea collaborates with each person to evaluate goals, history, and preferences, and together they determine which evidence-based techniques best fit the situation. This collaborative process helps tailor sessions to address areas such as attachment wounds, communication patterns, caregiver stress, and life transitions.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions may take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - which can make it easier to access consistent support across different schedules and locations. For clients balancing work, family, or medical needs, these options help maintain continuity of care and allow licensed professionals to work with people where they are.