The Child and Family Counseling Group, P.L.C.

  3959 Pender Drive  •  Suite 320  •  Fairfax, VA 22030  •  (703) 352-3822  •  Fax (703) 385-8353

 

Stuart Andrews, Ph.D.

Dr. Andrews offers psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and adults; psychological testing; and evaluations in the areas of child custody, visitation, and related issues involving children and families in the court system. He has special interests in couples therapy, psychotherapy with college-age students, and Affect Phobia Therapy for anxiety and depressive disorders.

 

Dr. Andrews received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Fielding Graduate University . During his training he completed a pre-doctoral internship at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School, a two-year fellowship in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Program for Psychotherapy, Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School, a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral medicine at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, and a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in child forensic evaluation at The Comprehensive Family Evaluation Center, Tufts New England Medical Center.

 

Dr. Andrews is a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School , where he has taught short-term dynamic psychotherapy to psychiatry residents at the Harvard Longwood Residency. He is the assistant director of the Program for Psychotherapy Research at Harvard Medical School , where he has conducted psychotherapy research under the direction of Dr. Leigh McCullough since 1995. Together with Dr. McCullough, he is a co-author of Treating Affect Phobia: A Manual for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, published by Guilford Press. Affect Phobia Therapy is an active, emotion-focused psychotherapy that has developed out of 25 years of psychotherapy process/outcome research. (see Affectphobia.org)

 

Prior to relocating to northern Virginia , Dr. Andrews was in private practice in Brookline , Massachusetts . He was co-founder and director of The Center for Families in Transition, Brookline , MA , where he developed For the Sake of the Children, a court-mandated program for parents going through divorce.

Available mornings, afternoons and some evenings.

To contact Dr. Andrews:  e-mail - jsa@childandfamilycounseling.com 
          voice mail - 703-352-3822, Ext. 25