COUNSELING IN ENGLISH WITH ANDREW WRIGHT | AMSTERDAM & ONLINE
You don’t have to go it alone
Life asks hard questions — about who you are, what matters, and how to move forward when the ground feels uncertain. This is a space to slow down, look clearly, and find your way back to yourself.
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
- Camus
More than managing symptoms
Anxiety & Uncertainty
Find steadiness when life feels unstable or overwhelming
Life Transitions
Navigate career change, relocation, identity shifts, and new chapters
Relationships
Understand patterns and find more authentic connections
Meaning & Direction
Reconnect with what matters when you've lost the thread
Expat Experience
Discover ways to build a new life far from home
Depression & Disconnection
Return to yourself when you've felt absent from your own life
Something brought you here — a feeling you can't quite name, a pattern you keep running into, a transition that's raised questions you weren't expecting. Whatever it is, it deserves more than a quick fix.
Our work goes beneath the surface. Rather than focusing only on symptom relief, together we will look at patterns, choices, and sources of meaning — the deeper architecture of how you relate to yourself, to others, and to the life you're trying to build. Anxiety, disconnection, and difficulty in relationships often point toward something real that wants to be understood, not simply quieted.
This kind of work takes honesty and willingness, and time. But through engagement, you may find yourself moving forward with a clarity and intention you didn't have before — not just feeling better, but living more fully.
My Approach
Andrew Wright, LPC, NCC
I don't start with a framework and fit you into it. I start with you — with what you're carrying, how you're making sense of it, and what this particular moment in your life is asking for.
Think of our work as walking through the woods together. I'm not ahead of you, clearing the path. I'm alongside you — helping you notice what you might have missed, pointing out openings you didn't see, and trusting that you already carry more capacity and resilience than you may recognize right now.
My approach draws on existential and psychodynamic traditions — both of which take seriously the idea that understanding yourself more deeply is the path to living more freely. In our work together, you’ll find that I’m especially interested in how you relate to meaning, choice, and the friction that life and change inevitably brings. That friction isn't always the enemy. In fact, it's often the catalyst for the change we need to see in our lives.
Sessions are conducted in English. I can work with you in person in the Amsterdam area, or online wherever you are in the Netherlands and beyond.
Training & Qualifications
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) — Illinois
National Certified Counselor (NCC) — USA
MA, Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Existential & Psychodynamic approaches
Present Tense Counseling offers non-medical counseling services. Sessions are conducted in English and are not covered by Dutch health insurance (zorgverzekering). Please see the FAQ page for full details on what to expect.
Existential counseling
Existential counseling starts from a simple but serious premise: that much of what brings people to therapy isn't just a symptom to be managed, but a signal worth listening to.
Anxiety, disconnection, recurring patterns, a sense that something is missing — these often point toward deeper questions about how you're living. What matters to you. What you're avoiding. Whether the life you're building actually feels like yours.
Rather than working to quiet these questions, existential counseling takes them seriously. We look at how you relate to meaning, choice, freedom, and the uncertainty that's woven into any life honestly lived. The friction you carry isn't treated as a malfunction. Often it's the most important thing in the room.
In practice, this isn't abstract philosophy — it's close, careful attention to your actual life. Your relationships, your patterns, your losses, your hopes. The work is collaborative and unhurried, and it tends to produce not just relief, but clarity.
Psychodynamic approaches explore how your past experiences — particularly in relationships — shape how you think, feel, and behave today, often in ways you're not fully aware of.
Together with existential work, this gives us two lenses: one pointed outward toward meaning and how you're living your life, another pointed inward toward the patterns and histories that influence who you are.
Both existential and psychodynamic approaches have substantial research support, particularly for outcomes related to long-term wellbeing, self-understanding, and relational patterns.
I don't primarily use structured CBT techniques, though elements of cognitive awareness, and mindfulness, naturally arise in the work. If you're looking for a highly structured, protocol-driven approach, this may not be the right fit. If you're looking for something more exploratory, collaborative, and attuned to the full complexity of your experience, it may be exactly right.
Want to learn more? Visit the FAQ page.