Andrea Mathews, LPC, NCC

Andrea Mathews, LPC, NCC Andrea Mathews is a psychotherapist, a writer, a speaker.

Andrea Mathews is a psychotherapist, a writer and a speaker whose unique brand of doing all three brings one central focus: Authenticity. For example, her consultations and executive coaching efforts assist upper managers with Authentic Leadership, and her Effective Communication presentations teach participants how to communicate from the Authentic Self. Her inspirational and motivational topics all direct participants to their own authenticity, so that they may find inner wings and learn to fly. Her books teach readers how to live authentically from both a psychological and spiritual base, and in her Psychotherapy practice she assists her clients in finding and living the Authentic Self. She has over 24 years experience as a Professional Trainer and Motivational Speaker, having come from both a clinical and a management background. Commonly selected topics in Corporate Training include: Stress Management, Leadership Development (Authentic Leadership), Team Development, Conflict Resolution, Effective Communication, Personality Types and Teams, Diversity Training, Talent Management and more—all designed to meet the needs of your organization. Commonly selected Motivational and Inspirational Topics include: Authentic Living, Authentic Relationships, Raising Your Flag, Living Your Dream, Metamorphosis, The Mystic Journey and more. As an NBCC approved provider of Continuing Education, Andrea also provides a Home Study, entitled "The Soul of Therapy," for 21 contact hours and offers training in several different topics of Counselor Education. With almost 30 years experience in the Mental Health/Human Services field providing and supervising others in the provision of therapy, Andrea Mathews provides therapy to adults and adolescents, families and couples,for a wide variety of diagnoses and issues, including supportive therapy for alternative relationships and GLBT issues.

Watch this interview about bullying:
10/28/2025

Watch this interview about bullying:

Every child deserves the freedom to be their true self. But for many, childhood can be clouded by bullying — either as victims, or those labeled as ‘bullies’...

My latest Podcast: Are you being emotionally blackmailed?
10/23/2025

My latest Podcast: Are you being emotionally blackmailed?

Podcast Episode · Authentic Living · 10/23/2025 · 9m

What does real intimacy look like?My latest article on Psychology Today.
10/20/2025

What does real intimacy look like?

My latest article on Psychology Today.

Intimacy is a skill we must learn in order to have healthy relationships.

Have you mistaken sacrifice for love?Or compliance for peace?Letting Go of Good reveals how the pursuit of goodness can ...
10/17/2025

Have you mistaken sacrifice for love?
Or compliance for peace?
Letting Go of Good reveals how the pursuit of goodness can chain us, and how authenticity sets us free.
💡 Now released in audiobook format for soulful listening.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Stop Being Good and Start Getting Real Rediscover your true self with Letting Go of Good, an empowering guide to dismantling the false connection between being good and being worthy. While exposing the dangers of the guilt-led life, practicing psychother.....

Wholeness is not about perfection.It’s about befriending every side of yourself — even the parts you’ve hidden away.That...
10/06/2025

Wholeness is not about perfection.
It’s about befriending every side of yourself — even the parts you’ve hidden away.
That is the freedom 'Letting Go of Good' leads us to…
🎧 Listen now on Audible’s new audiobook release:

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Stop Being Good and Start Getting Real Rediscover your true self with Letting Go of Good, an empowering guide to dismantling the false connection between being good and being worthy. While exposing the dangers of the guilt-led life, practicing psychother.....

CPTSD and PTSD caused by serious abuse don’t just cause only one way of interacting thereafter. There are several differ...
09/26/2025

CPTSD and PTSD caused by serious abuse don’t just cause only one way of interacting thereafter. There are several different roles or identities that can ultimately become symptomatic, that a survivor can live that help them survive. In fact, these roles were how they survived. Regardless of how dysfunctional these patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving, believing and acting are they are specific to how to survive the abuse. But what helped them survive might eventually become an albatross around their neck making life even more difficult .

I tire of, and worry about the many ads on social media luring survivors into their net, to pay for services meant to make it all better, after describing one set of symptoms, which if you have these, you should contact them and pay for their services. Not only is this practice nefarious, but it leaves out all those people who have a different set of patterns or symptoms and who need help, but are now less likely to get it because they don’t fit into that specific set of symptoms or patterns. They now think that, because they don’t have that specific set of symptoms or patterns, they don’t really have CPTSD or PTSD.

If you suspect that you might have CPTSD or PTSD, please don’t be confused by these ads. Seek a local therapist who can assess your symptoms and patterns more effectively. If you have a friend or relative who you think might have CPTSD or PTSD, please stop showing them these ads, in an effort to help. They may be lured in and have even more trouble afterwards.

There are many good therapists out there who can help. Your symptoms and/or patterns don’t have to match anyone else’s.

My latest article on Psychology Today:
09/23/2025

My latest article on Psychology Today:

Emotional blackmail can be hard to recognize. These real-life examples can help you identify it at work in your own life and learn how to extricate yourself from its effects.

How often has “being good” meant quieting your truth?What if being real is the greatest gift you can give?Explore this s...
09/23/2025

How often has “being good” meant quieting your truth?
What if being real is the greatest gift you can give?
Explore this shift of perspective in Letting Go of Good — now released on Audible audiobook.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Stop Being Good and Start Getting Real Rediscover your true self with Letting Go of Good, an empowering guide to dismantling the false connection between being good and being worthy. While exposing the dangers of the guilt-led life, practicing psychother.....

The path to wholeness isn’t paved with rules about being “good.” It begins when you grant yourself permission to be real...
09/19/2025

The path to wholeness isn’t paved with rules about being “good.” It begins when you grant yourself permission to be real.
Andrea Matthews’ Letting Go of Good now comes alive as an audiobook — a soul-stirring guide to inner freedom.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Stop Being Good and Start Getting Real Rediscover your true self with Letting Go of Good, an empowering guide to dismantling the false connection between being good and being worthy. While exposing the dangers of the guilt-led life, practicing psychother.....

Listen to my interview with Andrew Solomon on LGBTQ+ rights:
09/19/2025

Listen to my interview with Andrew Solomon on LGBTQ+ rights:

Your Authentic Self is wise, knows the highest path for your life and has never been wounded. That’s right. You have a part of you that has never been wounded. In fact, that part is the truest essence of who you are. Would you like to access it? Do you know how to use your own internal guidance sy...

We’ve been told that being “good” means putting others first… but what if the quest for goodness leaves us empty?'Lettin...
09/06/2025

We’ve been told that being “good” means putting others first… but what if the quest for goodness leaves us empty?
'Letting Go of Good' invites us to release the perfection mask and discover deeper authenticity.
🎧 Now available as an audiobook on Audible — experience freedom in a whole new voice.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Stop Being Good and Start Getting Real Rediscover your true self with Letting Go of Good, an empowering guide to dismantling the false connection between being good and being worthy. While exposing the dangers of the guilt-led life, practicing psychother.....

Want to know how to figure out who to believe?
08/27/2025

Want to know how to figure out who to believe?

With so many authorities' voices out there, how do we know who to listen to, who to believe?

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