About Andrew
Andrew McDalasair provides direct, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or depression. He aims to make sessions feel straightforward and down-to-earth. He creates a calm space where people can talk through current struggles and find clearer next steps.
Andrew uses plain language and step-by-step strategies rather than lots of jargon. He focuses on mood and stress management, and helps clients sort through family-of-origin concerns, attachment issues, and body image worries.
Background and approach
He also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, aging and geriatric issues, chronic illness and pain, and the unique dynamics around alternative relationship cultures like BDSM and kink. With three years of clinical experience, Andrew combines evidence-based therapeutic techniques with a person-centered way of working.
He encourages self-compassion and helps people notice patterns such as control issues, dependent personality features, or co-occurring mood problems. He also addresses situational stressors like coping with disasters and fatherhood-related concerns. Andrew holds MT LCPC as his listed credential.
He practices in Montana and offers sessions in English. He invites people to set goals at a comfortable pace and to bring what feels most pressing into the room. To begin, people complete a short questionnaire and schedule sessions based on the matching process.
Andrew works with each person to choose practical, realistic steps that fit their daily life.
Approaches that guide online care
Andrew uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, teachable skills and on understanding patterns that keep problems going. One common approach emphasizes behavioral and emotional skills training to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms by changing unhelpful routines and building coping strategies that can be practiced between sessions. Another approach centers on exploring attachment and family-of-origin patterns so people can notice how old relationship habits show up now and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to try methods that match their goals and preferences. If one strategy doesn't fit, adjustments are made together until a practical plan feels useful.
Because the biography does not list specific session formats, please confirm available options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a full session isn't needed. It can also offer continuity of care when schedules or locations change. Discussing how you prefer to meet helps shape a plan that fits daily routines and treatment goals.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English