Andrea Ferenchik

Andrea is passionate about helping people through life’s challenges. You may be processing past trauma or healing from emotional wounds. You may be facing the complexities of parenthood, relationship changes, a mid-life career shift, or the mixed emotions of an empty nest. Andrea will walk with you toward healing and transformation. She brings empathy, wisdom, and professional expertise to her work, and she helps clients see change and healing as chances to grow.

Andrea is committed to the belief that each person is uniquely crafted in the image of God and deserves unconditional respect and love. Her therapeutic approach is open, nonjudgmental, and trauma-informed. She works to help clients heal, build self-awareness, and grow in self-compassion, and she offers a safe space to explore their inner world and recover from difficult experiences.

Andrea has spent extensive time training in therapies that help resolve trauma. She is certified in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and helps people rapidly process and resolve traumatic memories. Accelerated Resolution Therapy is a unique and highly effective approach that helps people process and move past painful or traumatic memories without having to share every detail of what happened.

ART uses calming eye movements and guided imagery to reduce the emotional and physical distress tied to traumatic images and replaces them with positive images that help clients feel stronger. Research has shown that post-traumatic stress, panic, grief, phobias, and anxiety can often improve significantly in just 1–5 sessions. Clients often describe feeling relief quickly, as if the intensity of past events has lifted and only the facts remain, without the painful emotional charge. Much of ART’s strength comes from how it quiets the body’s fight-or-flight response, calms the nervous system, and creates new connections in the brain that support lasting change. ART helps people “keep the knowledge, but lose the pain,” so they can find peace again and move forward with more confidence and ease.

In addition to ART, Andrea is an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Level 1 trained therapist and has completed specialized coursework in relational trauma, child/parent estrangement, parenting, and recovering from narcissistic abuse and gaslighting.

Married since 1994, Andrea is an empty nester with two adult children, and she enjoys walking alongside others through the ups and downs of life. Andrea holds a master’s degree in clinical Mental Health Counseling from Mercer University and a bachelor’s from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is an Associate Professional Counselor under the supervision of Heather Cobb, LPC, CPCS.

In her free time, Andrea enjoys hiking with her husband, playing tennis and pickleball, taking photos, meeting friends for lunch, and sharing cat pictures in her family group chat.

Locations:

Cumming

Rates:

Individual session - $160

ART Session (90 min) - $250

Initial intake session - additional $25 added to cost of session