About

Dr. Andrea Brandt, Ph.D., M.F.T., has more than 30 years of experience successfully working with individuals, couples, and children in the Santa Monica, California area. She specializes in anger management, aging, relationships, how emotions relate to financial choices, women's issues, and the mind-body connection.

Her classes, workshops, and audio recordings have distinguished her as a leader in the field of Anger Management. Her thoughtful assessment of what it takes to inspire and educate has lead to breakthrough achievements for many of her clients in the widest range of situations.

In her work with both patients and other therapists, Dr. Brandt offers new approaches for dealing with anger and other deeper emotions. Dr. Brandt's proven techniques help raise her clients' awareness by unlocking their subconscious material and connecting to their unique internal experience. She teaches individuals how to access deeper feelings and consequently helps them develop new skills for assessment and expression of these emotions. Offering a fresh methodology, Dr. Brandt has been highly successful in renewing a sense of purpose and restoring enthusiasm to all aspects of an individual's life.

Her practice includes both one on one meetings as well as ongoing psychotherapy group sessions for individuals and couples. The groups provide a safe and supportive arena for her patients to exercise and develop new-found communication skills. She provides clients ways to enhance their relationships, deal more effectively with their feelings, and find balance between their personal and professional lives. A trained sensorimotor therapist, Andrea works with her clients to explore how their thoughts, memories, and feelings create limiting beliefs and behaviors. Increasing awareness on the mind-body connection has powerful consequences for the individual, who experiences a sense of empowerment and renewed clarity.

Through her classes and workshops on Anger Management, Anger & Money, and For Women Only, she fosters acceptance of an entirely new perspective on feelings, while doing away with destructive limiting beliefs and habits. Participants begin to think in a new, more positive paradigm. Many attest that her strategies and practical principles continue to have a positive impact on their lives years after attending the workshop.

Dr. Brandt attended the University of Illinois, UCLA and Antioch for her Bachelor's Degree in Clinical Psychology, and she earned her Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from Goddard University. Andrea received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Pacific Western University, and her dissertation, "An Exploratory Study of the Role of the Father in the Daughter's Development and Her Ability to Have Healthy Adult Relationships," investigated the complex effects of the father's role on the daughter's emotional development, conceptualizing the shaping of the daughter's ability to form positive, interdependent relationships. Dr. Brandt continues to expand her skills in the mind-body connection. She recently completed training with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Training Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Dr. Brandt produced the audio recording of "The Anger Zone," which uses dramatic vignettes that gives the listener the needed tools and strategies to decrease their stress and become empowered in their daily lives. She is currently putting the finishing touches on her new book about the positive effects of mindfulness in the area of anger management which is due out later this year.

Dr. Brandt is a sought after TV and radio show guest who has appeared on programs including: Larry King, The Michael Jackson Radio Show, The Love Connection, KFI News, Channel 11 and Channel 4 News. She has also done interviews for the Los Angeles Times and Parenting Magazine.