Andrea (Andi) Watson, LPC

Andrea (Andi) Watson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina with three years of clinical experience. They focus on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem struggles, and challenges related to gender and sexual identity. Drawing from training in evidence-based approaches, they supports clients working through life transitions, family and relationship difficulties, attachment concerns, and patterns like codependency or avoidant tendencies.

Watson approaches therapy as a collaborative process, believing clients hold important knowledge about their own lives while offering guidance on skills, processing, and perspective shifts. Their work includes addressing body image, obsessive-compulsive patterns, feelings of emptiness, and issues around guilt or shame, with attention to practical coping strategies and emotional exploration. They bring sensitivity to experiences of gender dysphoria and LGBTQ matters and aims to create a respectful, empathetic space for exploration.

Having navigated personal experiences with trauma, anxiety, depression, and questions of identity, they combines professional training with lived insight to support growth and reconnection to values and strengths. Andrea emphasizes compassion, respect, and a client-centered stance while helping people identify goals, build resilience, and develop tools for more meaningful connection and well-being.