Pierce Anderson (He/Him)

I specialize in working with adult children of divorce. As such, this means working with a wide array of family conflict issues. Things that often come up with this include identity struggles, role conflicts, and choice conflicts, and the direction that I generally take is to help my client learn to choose themselves, whatever that may look like.

I utilize person-centered therapy as a guiding theory to give my client a voice in the counseling room. In this way, I allow my client to be in the driver's seat, under the inherent assumption that with guidance, all of my clients have the capacity to help themselves. This process is crucial to building a strong sense autonomy through therapy.

Using existential therapy, I help clients uncover patterns, confront avoidance, and identify decisions that align with their personal values. This lens allows us to explore important yet abstract topics like meaning, life/death, purpose, and fear.

CBT is a highly researched, evidence-based approach widely known to be effective for anxiety, depression, stress, and many other issues. I utilize this theory to provide a clear, empirically backed foundation for setting and achieving goals in therapy.

Almost all of my clients deal with anxiety to some extent, whether it is the focus of their therapy or not. This often shows up as avoidance, people-pleasing, negative self talk, and much more. As such, learning to cope with and manage anxiety is a fundamental tool that I try to equip my clients with as a basis for moving onto specific growth areas.

As mentioned previously, I specialize in working with people who have chaotic family backgrounds. People carry their upbringings with them throughout their whole lives, whether they realize it or not. This can often feel like a heavy weight or burden, and one of my primary goals as a therapist is to help you learn how to drop that extra weight.

This one is pretty straightforward! People with chaotic family backgrounds often struggle with things like choice conflicts, role conflicts, self worth, self respect, and much more. Overall, my goal here is to help you repair whatever 'damage' has been done and learn what it looks like to choose yourself going forward.