About Therapy with Jeremiah Andrews
When Life’s Big Problems Don’t Come With an Obvious First Step
Some problems arrive with a clear shape, like panic that shows up before every exam or a drink after work that has turned into three most nights.
Others are harder to point to: a low mood that has settled in for months, an old experience that still colors how you react, or a question about where your life is headed that keeps getting bigger.
Either way, the question underneath tends to be the same. What would doing better actually look like, and where would you begin?
That question is where therapy with me starts.
Why Your Hardest Stretches Resist a General Plan
When a hard stretch goes on, the natural response is to try harder at everything at once: sleep more, worry less, be more patient, cut back.
Those intentions are sincere, but without a specific goal and a way to recognize progress, it’s hard to tell whether anything is working, and the effort slowly fades.
Meanwhile, your thoughts, your emotions, and your behavior keep shaping one another in ways that are difficult to see from the inside.
A clear goal gives your effort a direction, and a closer look at those patterns gives it a place to start.
Work Toward Goals You Set in Your Own Words
The first sessions focus on what you want to be different, described in terms that would count as real progress in your own life.
From there, I draw on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), two science-based approaches that address your thinking, your emotions, and your behavior, along with work aimed directly at solving the problem in front of you.
Sessions happen by video, so you can meet with me from anywhere in Mississippi with a private spot and a steady connection.
The process stays focused on you, and the aim is a supportive, comfortable hour where you feel heard, understood, and empowered to keep working toward meaningful change.
Your Progress Becomes Something You Can Point To
Because the work is tied to goals you named, you’ll have a way to notice change as it happens, whether that’s a calmer morning or a hard conversation you handled differently.
The skills you practice in session are built for ordinary life, so they’re available on the days when your mood, your anxiety, or an old habit starts to pull at you.
Adolescents, young adults, and adults each bring different goals, and the work adjusts to fit the stage of life you’re in right now.
And when another big problem comes along later, you’ll already have a way of working through it that you know fits you.
About Jeremiah Andrews, LPC
Therapy should be an open experience that is focused on goals, and that belief shapes how I work with every person I see.
My name is Jeremiah Andrews, and I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor with a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. My background in traditional therapies, school settings, university counseling, and substance use supports has prepared me to support many ages and stages of life.
The areas I work with include mood, personality patterns, psychosis, substance use, anxiety and depression, trauma, and many more.
At Sageberry Psychology, I see adolescents, young adults, and adults by video from anywhere in Mississippi.
Begin Wherever You Are in Mississippi
A complimentary 15-minute consultation is the simplest way to find out whether my approach fits the goals you have in mind, for yourself or for your teenager.
Bring whatever questions you have about the process, the video sessions, or what a first goal would look like for you.
Call the office or sign up online.