Andrea Hickle, LCSW

Andrea Hickle is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Indiana with seven years of experience. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, low motivation, and self-esteem concerns. Andrea aims to create a warm, open, and nonjudgmental space so clients feel heard and supported.

Her work has taken place in hospitals, schools, and private practice, and she has also contributed to program and systems-level efforts. Those roles shaped her view that relationships, environment, and ongoing stress strongly affect wellbeing. She uses practical strategies to help people cope with everyday pressures and big life changes.

Andrea has a deep focus on blended families and on adoptive and foster care situations. She helps people navigate transitions, identity questions, and building connection and trust after change. Communication and stability are frequent topics in her sessions with family-focused concerns.

She draws on several therapeutic approaches to tailor care to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her toolkit for addressing anxious thoughts and unhelpful behavior patterns. Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills also show up when people need emotion regulation and grounding techniques.

Andrea also uses client-centered methods and motivational interviewing to support goals like career shifts, coping with grief, and improving self-worth. She meets people where they are and works collaboratively toward the changes they want.

How Andrea’s Approaches Work Online

Andrea often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT breaks problems into thought, feeling, and action so people can try small changes and notice different results.

She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. This approach helps people feel understood and develop their own solutions at a comfortable pace.

Finding the right approach is part of the first sessions. Andrea will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize CBT skills, emotion regulation tools from DBT, or other techniques based on what the person wants to accomplish.

Online sessions can happen by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a break or require less bandwidth, and live chat or messaging work for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still working on concrete skills and goals.