Andrea Goundry, LGPC

I specialize in working with children, adolescents, and teens who are navigating big emotions, anxiety, behavioral challenges, and major life transitions. I provide a calm, supportive space where they can feel understood while learning practical tools that make a real difference. Common goals include strengthening emotional regulation, improving communication, building confidence, and creating more peace at home. Above all, families are often seeking relief, connection, and care that blends creativity with evidence-based strategies.

Hi, I’m Andi, the owner of Mindful Me: Child and EMDR Therapy. I specialize in working with children, adolescents, teens, and families who are navigating big emotions, anxiety, behavioral challenges, and major life transitions. Many of the families I support are doing their very best—and still feeling stuck in cycles of meltdowns, power struggles, school stress, worries, or disconnection at home. My goal is to help you make sense of what’s happening, create a clear plan forward, and build lasting skills that bring more calm, confidence, and connection to daily life.

My approach is warm, creative, and structured. Kids often tell me therapy feels different here—in a good way. Sessions are engaging and strengths-based, but also purposeful and skill-building. I focus on helping clients feel understood while learning practical tools they can actually use in real life (not just in the therapy office). I also make sure parents feel supported and guided, because meaningful change happens faster when caregivers have clarity and confidence at home.

I work with children and teens who may be experiencing anxiety, worries, perfectionism, overwhelm, emotional regulation challenges, impulsivity, behavioral concerns at home or school, low self-esteem, social struggles, conflict with peers, or stress related to family changes and transitions. Whether your child tends to externalize (big reactions everyone can see) or internalize (quietly carrying heavy feelings), we’ll create a plan that fits who they are and what they need.

In therapy, I use a blend of evidence-based approaches and developmentally appropriate, creative strategies. Depending on your child’s needs, sessions may include play-based therapy and child-centered interventions, CBT skills for anxiety and coping, emotion identification and regulation tools, parent support and coaching to strengthen routines and connection, and EMDR for children, teens, and adults when trauma, distressing memories, or body-based stress responses are part of the picture. I often incorporate games, visuals, and interactive activities to meet kids where they are—especially for children who struggle to “just talk” or don’t yet have the words for what they feel.

While every family’s goals are unique, common goals include helping your child manage emotions in healthier ways, reducing anxiety and increasing resilience, improving communication and decreasing conflict, building self-confidence, and creating more peace at home. Starting therapy can feel like a big step, and it’s normal to have questions. If you’re considering working together, I’m happy to connect for a brief consultation to hear what’s going on and help you determine whether we’re a good fit. You don’t have to figure it out alone—there is a path forward, and we’ll take it one step at a time.