About Andie
Andie (andrea) CostoN, LSW:
“Shame dies when stories
are told in safe spaces.”
- Ann Voskamp
About:
Andie likes to tell people that she has four children, 3 dogs, two cats, and one husband. A more recent transplant, formerly from Michigan and North Carolina, Andie has been in private practice since 2022 when she graduated with her MSW and has been with CHAT since 2023. Andie is an avid reader, writer, artist, humorist, and outdoors dabbler. She is also an advocate for the Adoption, Neurodiverse, and Queer communities both online and as an speaker and educator. If money were not an issue she would be traveling and taking long walks on the beach (literally) collecting rocks.
Professionally Andie seeks to help you understand how we react to change, adapt, and heal from traumatic experiences and living in them. Her goal is to help clients work towards acceptance with past traumas, become more able to fully live in the present and gain agency over their own life journey by working to improving their internal view of self, increase skills through a growth mindset to improve functioning, and help process traumas detracting them from being peacefully present and engaged in their lives.
Andie’s clientele usually have a Venn Diagram of experiences or diagnosis ranging from Autism, ADHD, Pathological Demand Avoidance, living as a Queer person, High-Control Religious Trauma, Chronic Pain, or have experienced biological family separation through adoption, foster care, or family dysfunction.
Education and Training:
Andie’s educational background is diverse with a Bachelor’s of Intercultural Studies and Marketing having originally studied Fine art and Theater. She began her Master of Social Work right before the pandemic and graduated in 2022. Andie is a trauma trained clinician through the Mindsight Institute/PESI having taken and completed an Intensive Trauma Treatment Course, as well as training and certifications in EMDR, Expressive Arts, ITR, TF-CBT, and Sand Tray.
Andie is also an adoption competent therapist specializing in Foster Care, Adoption, Neurodivergence, Trauma, Religious Trauma, LGBTQIA+ and Transgender issues, Pathological Demand Avoidance, Attachment, and physiological psychoeducation.
Andie might be a good fit if:
You use humor as a coping skill.
You like to learn and you info dumping.
You like to stim, move, play, or do art while you talk.
You are interested in politics and policy, religious and oppressive system deconstruction.
You are a nerd.
You like to show people photos of your pets.
Andie’s Space and art
