Couples Counseling Therapists in Burlington, VT

What brings you to therapy is complex and personal. I will meet you where you are, working with whatever you bring through the door and support you to become the expert in shaping your own life. I view therapy as intersectional, dynamic, and co-creative - a space of safety and nonjudgment where you can process, explore, and heal.

In a safe and supportive environment I work with adults, teens, children, couples , and families. For more than thirty years I have worked collaboratively with my clients around many different concerns, including illness and grief, relationship stress, separation and divorce, parenting (including co-parenting and step-parenting), career change and stress, care-taking of elderly and other family members, and self esteem struggles resulting from childhoods touched by neglect and/or abuse. Special interest and training in EFT (Emotionally Focused Couples and Individual Therapy).

My work as a therapist is to help people live fulfilling lives in which they enjoy satisfying relationships, do their best work, and develop a deeper awareness and curiosity about their inner emotional experiences. I believe that the therapeutic relationship is essential to facilitating honest and open self-discovery. It serves as a lens through which relationship patterns and emotional experiences can be explored in a unique way. This approach to therapy generates long-term improvements for people suffering from depression, anxiety, grief, relationship problems, and the effects of trauma.

I have a focus on providing collaborative support within a framework of social justice and a strong belief that each person has everything they need within them and sometimes we all lose touch with these things and could use some outside support to discover our answers. I view my role as a therapist as the bridge to the answers within that may be difficult to see. I believe that the context of our lives is important to understanding our experiences.

Evening and Weekend Appointments are Available! Andrea Tolbert, LCSW, MBA, MSW, MHRT/CSP of Absolute Happiness Psychotherapy and Consultation, PLLC offers mental health counseling with individuals and groups in an outpatient setting located in Portland, Maine. Supervision for clinicians seeking licensure and Consultation for agencies, educational institutions, organizations, and businesses are available. My clinical specialties are trauma, substance misuse, women, and military veterans/service members and their families; working with adults, couples , and groups. Sliding scale fee rates of $30-$80 are available at Absolute Happiness by enrolling at http://openpathcollective.org.

I offer compassionate, down-to-earth counseling in which I strive to build a collaborative therapeutic relationship . Through gentle curiosity of one's internal experience (emotions, thoughts, and sensations) the client can have a more complete, accurate and honest present moment experience of themselves, creating more self awareness, self responsiveness, compassion, trust, and authentic expression. My therapeutic style tends toward interactive, while collaborating with the client to guide the process at a safe pace. I work from a strength-based model that views individuals as having an innate capacity toward growth and health.

You are 100% accepted and celebrated as is. However, if you have goals to work on toward wellness, I can be your partner in that process. I have been helping people in the therapeutic process since 1999. I would be honored to work with you as you experience personal growth. I draw upon various modalities to assist teenagers and adults including: CBT, ACT, Solutions Based Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. I practice with unconditional positive regard and encourage you to practice self-compassion while gently working toward your goals.

Counseling/Coaching via teletherapy is available. As a registered expressive arts therapist, facilitator and coach, I bring a unique blend of trauma-informed skills, in helping individuals re-frame, reauthor and re-story their life stories and create more fulfilling lives. Using expressive arts, EFT, Qi Gong, Reiki and energy work, narrative and transpersonal psychologies, I support you in developing the confidence that is needed to see in order to clearly move through the pain and grief of life experience becoming an agent of and for change. I also work at JourneyWorks Collaborative in New Bedford offering groups, & classes.

I provide a safe and comfortable place for my clients to express themselves and find a caring and supportive therapist who will come alongside them in their struggles. Areas in which I help my clients include: depression, anxiety, stress management, bereavement, medical and health struggles, low self-confidence, relationship troubles, divorce, parenting, life transitions. I especially enjoy my work with couples and young adults.