About Andre
Andre Vilarinho is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing from New York. He offers virtual therapy across New York and Connecticut and focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and stress.
Background and approach
His tone in sessions is casual and warm, and he aims to create a trusting space while also offering direct feedback when needed. Andre draws on evidence-based methods to help people change how they think, feel, and act in relationships.
He pays attention to the impact of identity and life context on the problems people bring. Sessions often focus on improving communication, managing shame and guilt, and strengthening self-worth.
He has five years of clinical experience across community mental health, group practices, and nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Much of that work involved supporting people connected to others who struggle with anxiety, depression, or addiction, and working with parents around parenting concerns.
Andre describes his style as relaxed, thoughtful, and optimistic. He aims to build a collaborative plan with clear goals and practical steps.
The work can be direct at times, and he balances challenge with support. People who choose him typically want down-to-earth guidance for relationship issues, career strain, identity-related stress, or recovery from trauma.
He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet depending on what fits the person's life.
Approaches that guide online work and what they do
Andre uses evidence-based techniques such as cognitive behavioral approaches that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression, and structural family ideas that look at how roles and patterns in relationships shape problems. He also draws on humanistic methods that emphasize empathy and self-understanding to strengthen self-love and personal growth.Figuring out the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, try methods that fit their style, and adjust plans as progress is made. This collaborative process helps determine whether a focus on thoughts, relationship patterns, or personal growth is most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations for skills practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging options make it easier to check in between sessions or fit counseling into a busy day. These options make therapy easier to schedule and keep consistent for people with varied routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, New York
- Languages
- English