Life comes with struggle and triumph, pain and possibility. I’m here to walk with you on an empowering journey of growth and discovery to break the chains of anxiety, depression, and stress, navigate life transitions, cope with grief and loss, craft healthy relationships, and come into your best self for life’s present chapter. Individual therapy provides a supportive environment to process thoughts and feelings, realize your strength, and step into a life worth living. This is a place for explorers, deep thinkers, hard workers, and wandering souls. You’re welcome here.

I offer empowering individual therapy for adults near Buffalo and across New York State. My approach is integrative, action-oriented, and evidence-based. We’ll draw from generations of cognitive, behavioral, biological, and social science to deconstruct and work through life’s challenges. Integrative psychotherapy is an individualized and holistic approach to enhancing personal well-being. I typically work from a cognitive behavioral perspective, thoughtfully incorporating time-tested and empirically-supported methods found in adjacent approaches such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), behaviorism, exposure and response prevention (ERP), motivational interviewing, positive psychology, the strengths perspective, and trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT). Research shows a quality relationship between you and your therapist accounts for roughly 30 percent of therapy’s effectiveness. I see this as a cornerstone of our work and promise to approach sessions with genuineness, transparency, trustworthiness, and respect. Perhaps this is the way therapy was intended to be – empathic, dynamic, pragmatic, and refreshingly human.

Support is available for acute and chronic stress, anxiety and panic attacks, attention and ADHD, behavioral issues, career and school issues, depression and coping skills, fears and phobias, grief and loss, life transitions and adjustments, obsessions and compulsions, parenting and caregiving, relationship issues, self-esteem and identity, sleep and insomnia, trauma and PTSD, and more.

Before opening this practice, I served as a social worker in community-based outpatient mental health, community outreach, person-centered peer counseling, school-based solution-focused family counseling and consultation, case management, and social research. I’ve worked in leadership, business communication, retail price management, public health and the medical sector, and have owned multiple small businesses. I have a varied teaching history, including community and anti-stigma education, professional mentoring, field education, internship supervision, curriculum development, and university professorship at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Over nearly two decades in the helping professions, I’ve had the honor of connecting with over one thousand individuals, ranging in age from 2 to 101 years, and have worked with individuals identifying as LGBTQ+ in a variety of settings.

I have specialized training in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), behavioral activation, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), harm reduction and risk assessment, motivational interviewing (MI), person-centered therapy, positive psychology interventions, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) and more. My most valuable and continuous learning, however, emerges in partnership with those whose lives I am privileged to enter each day.

It can be difficult to seek support during challenging times. I hope to make that experience safe and welcoming. Reach out today for a free 15 minute phone consultation. You can share a bit about what you’re facing and I’ll share a bit about how I can help. Discover more at www.andrewwiltonlcsw.com.