Hi, I’m Dr. Thomika Andrews, DHA, LCSW-S, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in Houston, TX. I specialize in trauma therapy helping young adults and professionals heal from workplace trauma, relationship issues, workplace burnout, and anxiety or depression that often stem from toxic work environments, high-pressure roles, or unresolved past experiences. If you have experienced recent break up or divorce, a recent job loss or stress from a toxic workplace environment, I am here to support you.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Our first session is focused on creating a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space where you can share what brings you to therapy. This is a space where you can unpack what you have been experiencing and how it has impacted your life. Together, we’ll begin developing a personalized plan that supports healing, builds coping skills, and helps you feel more grounded and in control—both professionally and personally. Sometimes that plan includes a 4-6 week break from work to prioritize your mental health.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
My strengths are built in the ability to hold space for you to be vulnerable, understood, heard and seen. Vulnerability is not always easy but i help you find that courage to open up about your vulnerabilities, traumatic experiences, and deep insecurities. Healing can only begin in truth and honesty and together we create that. The transformation happens at this moment, and that's why therapy with me is different. If you want to experience transformational healing through therapy then book your first session.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I work best with individuals who are ready to go deep for healing. The willingness to face your trauma to take away the power it holds over your anxiety, depression, emotions and sense of self worth. My clients are motivated to grow but often feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. If you’re ready to understand your patterns, heal from relationship issues, workplace stress or trauma, and build healthier boundaries and balance, we may be a great fit.
EMDR
Many clients come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or emotionally unsafe at work—often after experiences such as chronic stress, toxic leadership, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or sudden job loss. These experiences can stay “stuck” in the nervous system and show up as anxiety, hypervigilance, emotional shutdown, sleep issues, or loss of confidence. I use EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) to help clients process workplace trauma in a way that goes beyond talk therapy alone. EMDR helps the brain reprocess distressing work-related experiences so they no longer feel as intense, triggering, or defining. My approach is gentle, collaborative, and paced to your readiness. We begin by building emotional safety, grounding skills, and clarity around how work experiences have impacted your self-worth, boundaries, and sense of control. From there, EMDR is used to target specific memories, patterns, or beliefs (such as “I’m not safe,” “I’m not good enough,” or “I have to stay silent to survive”) that developed in the workplace. Rather than reliving the trauma, EMDR allows your nervous system to release what it has been holding, helping you feel more regulated, confident, and empowered—both at work and beyond it. Clients often report: Reduced anxiety and emotional reactivity at work Improved confidence and decision-making Stronger boundaries and self-trust Relief from chronic stress, burnout, or shame tied to work experiences Therapy is a space where your experiences are validated and your healing is prioritized. You do not have to minimize what happened to you in order to move forward.
Trauma-Focused CBT
My primary approach is EMDR to help clients process and release the emotional impact of workplace trauma, burnout, and chronic stress. As a secondary approach, I use trauma-informed CBT to help clients understand how these experiences affect their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, while building coping skills, strengthening boundaries, and restoring confidence in work and daily life.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in a person's present behavior. The goal of this therapy is for the client to understand and cope better with these feelings by talking about these experiences. This approach to therapy believes that our behavior and feelings are strongly affected by unconscious motives, that our childhood experiences shape our adult relationships and interactions, and that issues or conflicts that are not fully resolved in our past may influence our actions and thoughts in the present. The therapist's role in psychodynamic therapy is to help the client explore and understand hidden patterns and unresolved issues that may be causing distress or difficulty in their current life. They do this through methods such as free association (encouraging the client to talk freely about whatever comes to mind) and dream analysis. Psychodynamic therapy can be used to treat a wide range of mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, panic disorders, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The therapy is often long-term and requires regular sessions over a period of months or years.