Andrew Scardina, LCSW

Andrew Scardina is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with eleven years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. He also supports those working through trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges with self-esteem or career direction.

He uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions are shaped together so goals are clear and progress can be tracked. Andrew describes himself as respectful, sensitive, and compassionate in his work with clients.

Andrew draws on several practical approaches in therapy. He uses client-centered methods to follow the person’s pace and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, while Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing strong emotions.

Motivational Interviewing is used to address ambivalence and support changes people actually want to make. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set small, achievable steps when quick improvements are a goal. These approaches are mixed to fit each person’s needs rather than applied the same way for everyone.

Andrew is an Army combat veteran and says that experience helps him connect broadly and understand life transitions that follow service. He invites questions about the process and asks prospective clients to use the platform’s Start Therapy flow to begin the matching and scheduling steps.

How his approaches can work in online therapy

Andrew commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities, which helps people feel heard and shape goals. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical exercises to change patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. DBT teaches concrete skills for tolerating distress and managing intense emotions, which can help with anger, relationship strain, or ongoing stress.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs and goals. That may mean trying a few techniques, tracking how they feel, and adjusting plans together over time.

The therapist’s biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, shorten check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also allows work on skills and homework between meetings, and lets people use audio-only or video options when those formats are supported and preferred.