About Andrienne
Andrienne Horton-Smith is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with 24 years of experience. She brings long-term clinical work to bear on emotional stressors rooted in anxiety, depression, and generational trauma, combining counseling, life coaching, and mentoring to help clients rediscover self-worth and resilience.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on recognizing each person as the expert of their own life while offering guidance to process difficult emotions and navigate change. Andrienne emphasizes practical strategies alongside emotional insight, helping clients address relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and coping with life transitions.
She also attends to issues such as attachment and abandonment, communication difficulties, forgiveness, impulsivity, mood disorders, multicultural concerns, and workplace stress. Andrienne works collaboratively to identify strengths and build on emerging resources, supporting clients through stress, social anxiety, and challenges related to life purpose or midlife concerns.
Her practice aims to create a pathway toward greater self-love, healthier communication, and more adaptive coping so clients can move toward a more fulfilling life.
Approaches that Translate Well to Online Care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood; it often uses practical exercises and skill-building to produce measurable change. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing traumatic experiences and reducing their ongoing impact, using paced techniques to help clients regain a sense of safety and control.
Finding the right approach often unfolds together. Andrienne collaborates with each client to determine which methods best match their goals, symptoms, and personal preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made to ensure the work remains relevant and effective.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage with these approaches through live video sessions, phone appointments, or text-based options like live chat and messaging. Those formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and practice skills in real time between meetings with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English