https://www.andrasototherapy.com/home daily 1.0 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e095ca5716e4f31eb67d9/1596845342854-QEG3D073KG3VCN8Z2M5J/Impacting_Events_Words_07.gif Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e095ca5716e4f31eb67d9/1596000273869-ZNYC9L7ZAGKM193NN8XF/Andra+Soto+Therapy+-+LOGO.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e095ca5716e4f31eb67d9/1596054918090-PPNS50T7GAI7UL47AGTZ/image-asset.jpeg Home - “Andra evidences extraordinary sensitivity, care, and warmth with her clients and facilitates her clients ability to have greater self-determination in utilizing their own strengths to address their difficulties. Her communication style is engaging through the use of humor, storytelling, reflection, and emotional vulnerability. She also has an energetic and passionate attitude. She draws on this way of being in leading trainings and in public speaking presentations to community organizations about birth to five mental health services. She has also used these skills to work with school staff of several clients, facilitate their shared understanding and insights about the client’s needs, and motivate them to collectively change to a more responsive, therapeutic teaching approach. Andra embodies compassion, authenticity, and courage. Her positive attitude of work challenges and individual differences enable her to be a highly effective therapist and a joy to supervise. As Andra’s past supervisor, her clients consistently said they felt tremendous trust in her, felt seen and understood, and felt truly cared for by her. Andra is one of the most talented and committed child therapists I know.” Chheng Ear, LCSW; Clinical Director, Kidango https://www.andrasototherapy.com/about-me-1 daily 0.75 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e095ca5716e4f31eb67d9/1595821512072-VW0ZH2A6NBA4HUT91SRE/IMG_3094.jpg About Me - Honor. Connection. Hope. Andra is a fully licensed clinical therapist (LCSW) in the states of Texas and California and is a Registered Play Therapist™. Her practice focuses on treating young children, and supporting their parents/caregivers via therapy or consultation. Children have been an integral part of her life since welcoming home her baby sister at 5-years old and opening her own thriving babysitting business when she was 12. Her love of children brought her through the field of teaching and ultimately to the field of mental health where she is honored to join families as they journey through challenging behaviors in their effort to increase their sense of understanding, connection, and delight. Andra works with children who experience anxiety, depression, aggression, trauma symptoms, attention challenges, hyperactivity, impulsivity, sensory processing issues, social challenges, adjustment challenges, attachment issues, and who have experienced trauma or prenatal exposure to alcohol. She is one of a handful of providers in all of Texas trained in an evidence-based practice called Child-Parent Psychotherapy designed to treat children ages 0-5 who have experienced trauma. She is one of a handful of providers trained in a promising-practice called Families Moving Forward to help support caregivers of children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. She is becoming certified in Theraplay, an attachment-based modality which guides child and parent through playful activities in order to strengthen their relational dimensions of nurture, structure, challenge, and engagement. Andra’s approach is child-centered, honoring and enjoying children as they currently are which creates a safe space for them to develop into their most healthy selves. She strives to support each family’s unique values, as she is entrusted with their children. She incorporates sign language to facilitate communication, when appropriate. She works with children using their first language - which is play! https://www.andrasototherapy.com/services daily 0.75 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e095ca5716e4f31eb67d9/a2408886-3c69-410f-8f53-16389df28623/Image+Play+Doctor.jpg Interventions - Play Therapy I am a Registered Play Therapist. The language of children is play, so my “office” is a playroom. It is equipped with intentionally selected toys to help children communicate what is important to them. For individual sessions, I predominantly practice a non-directive, child-centered approach which helps children build an internal sense of self and organize their emotions and experiences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e095ca5716e4f31eb67d9/160fae84-a97c-4d8f-9e51-049e51579d6b/man_girl_dance.jpg Interventions - Theraplay I am an Intermediate Level Theraplay practictioner and am continuing the process to become fully certified. Theraplay is a unique modality involving both child and caregiver. It is attached-based, directive with intentionally selected activities, structured, and increases relational attunement and supports a secure attachment. It focuses on 4 relational dimensions - nurture, engagement, structure, and challenge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e095ca5716e4f31eb67d9/1596058318301-M2QKLAPHQ3YIK3FHTEZB/image-asset.jpeg Interventions - Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) An evidence-based practice recommended for children ages 0-5 who have experienced trauma. Includes caregiver sessions initially then primarily child/caregiver sessions. Key components include creating a shared narrative to support dyadic meaning-making (“speaking the unspeakable”), increasing a sense of security, repairing ruptured trust, supporting a secure attachment, and creating a safe environment for the child to “play out” the trauma until it has been sufficiently witnessed and trauma symptoms/behaviors subside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e095ca5716e4f31eb67d9/1596058986910-JLUQ1RLD3O84MSHEJR6S/image-asset.jpeg Interventions - Families Moving Forward (FMF) One of only 4 CDC-recommended interventions for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (which can have significant impact on one’s behaviors and functioning). Includes primarily collateral sessions with caregivers, one school support session, and one observation session of child and parent interaction. 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