Founder & Therapist
Andrew Negrey, MS, LPC, ADHD-CCSP
he/him
Neurodiversity & ADHD | Self-esteem | Family of Origin Issues | Existential & Spiritual Crises |
Trauma | Shame
Chestnut Hill office | In-person & virtual sessions
Website: www.andrewnegreypsychotherapy.com
Email: andrewnegrey@gmail.com
Phone: 215.234.1326
Andrew’s Specialty Areas
Self and Identity issues: identity exploration, self-esteem, shame, difficulties with assertiveness, people-pleasing, and imposter syndrome
Existence and Meaning: major life transitions, spiritual, existential, and philosophical shifts and crises, grief and loss, death anxiety, religious trauma, “deconstruction”
Neurodivergence: support for ADHD, late-diagnosed Autism, giftedness; those variously feeling out of sync with dominant rhythms, expectations, and ways of thinking.
Relationships: family, partners, friends, navigating the complexities of relationship, finding connection, belonging, intimacy
Specific Problems of Artists and Creatives
Anxiety, Depression, or just generally feeling bad, lost, confused, stuck
Andrew’s Therapy Approaches
“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people” -Ursula K Le Guin
In life everything flows and changes, requiring a continual process of creative adaptation. Sometimes the changes come too quickly and we find ourselves overwhelmed, submerged, or washed up someplace unrecognizable. In times like these it helps to not face it alone. Sometimes we need a witness, a supporter, a collaborator, someone to help trace the shape of what we’re making and becoming.
My approach to therapy centers around creativity; not just artistic creativity (though I work with many creative people), but the kind of generative thinking and experimenting that helps us live more freely and inventively in any field or situation. I am interested in what happens when you stop trying to “fix” yourself (according to THEM: society, family, peers; the innumerable self-appointed experts and critics) and instead begin to listen to what your particular way of being is asking for. I see therapy as a space where we can explore core values, rework inherited narratives, find courage to face the nightmarish and painful dimensions of life, and make new meaning--not all at once, but slowly, experimentally, and with care.
The work is future-oriented, but not in a narrow goal-setting sense. It’s about tuning into what wants to emerge: what’s latent, what’s possible, what’s unfinished. Sometimes that means deepening into a moment, a memory, an image, a charged word or phrase that won’t leave you alone. Sometimes it means zooming out and reimagining the whole terrain.
My approach is grounded in a relational psychodynamic framework, with strong influences from the arts, philosophy, cognitive science, and depth psychology. I draw on dream work, active imagination, and a multi-modal way of thinking that values connections across disciplines, experiences, and parts of the self.
I see therapy as a transdisciplinary and collaborative process: one that integrates emotion, imagination, intellect, and embodiment. It’s ultimately about increasing your joy, your power and freedom to act—making space for fuller forms of experience, expression, and connectedness.
Andrew’s Training & Experience
Andrew is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Pennsylvania. He earned his Master of Science degree in Clinical and Counseling Psychology from Chestnut Hill College, his Masters in Fine Arts in Painting from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting and Digital/Time-Based Media at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also an ADHD certified clinical services provider (ADHD-CCSP).
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