Positive Regard for You

Positive Regard for You Therapist

Are you navigating chronic illness or chronic pain or know someone who could benefit from connection with others who tru...
08/23/2026

Are you navigating chronic illness or chronic pain or know someone who could benefit from connection with others who truly get it?

My first Living in a Body That Hurts virtual support & processing group has been such a great experience that I’m opening a second cohort, with a later evening time for clients who couldn’t make the original group.

This group is ideal for adults who are already engaged in therapy (or have been) and are looking for a space to:

• Connect with others who understand the reality of living with chronic pain or illness
• Process the grief, frustration, isolation, and identity changes that can come with chronic conditions
• Learn practical mind-body tools for nervous system regulation and managing overwhelm
• Feel less alone in an experience that can be incredibly difficult for others to understand

Virtual via Zoom
Tuesdays, 8:30–9:30 PM EST
Start date TBA once the new cohort has enough interest

Each session blends psychoeducation with supportive discussion and processing along with gentle, accessible exercises.

I’m a trauma therapist trained in EMDR, ACT, and somatic approaches, and I’m personally and professionally informed on the complexity of living with invisible pain and chronic conditions.

Now Accepting New Therapy Clients For the first time in almost a year, I am opening my schedule to welcome a small numbe...
08/03/2026

Now Accepting New Therapy Clients

For the first time in almost a year, I am opening my schedule to welcome a small number of new clients, with appointments beginning in September, with a few openings available as early as mid-August.

If you’ve been thinking about reaching out or have been waiting for my schedule to open, I’d love to connect.

Current availability:
• Monday: 12:00 PM or 1:00 PM (weekly), 2:00 PM (biweekly)
• Tuesday: 11:00 AM (biweekly), 12:00 PM (weekly), 2:00 PM (weekly)

All other slots are currently full.

I accept most major insurance plans, and if I’m out of network with your insurance, I’m happy to provide a superbill.

My currently accepted insurance plans are listed on my Headway profile. (Headway)

If you’re interested in working together, you can schedule a free consultation.
Book a consultation or request an appointment

I look forward to connecting with you!

Andrea Evgeniou, LPC
Positive Regard Therapy Services LLC

I know I say I feel lucky, and I truly do.I never lose sight of how unlikely it is that I was born into the family I was...
07/26/2026

I know I say I feel lucky, and I truly do.

I never lose sight of how unlikely it is that I was born into the family I was born into, in the country, state, and circumstances that I was. The health I have, the opportunities I’ve had, and so many of the privileges I carry were never things I earned. They were gifts. When life feels hard, I always come back to that. That gratitude grounds me.

But alongside that gratitude, I also feel something else.

I don’t even know if “proud” is the right word. I just feel deeply good about the person I’ve become.

Not because life was easy, but because it wasn’t.

Every version of me that had to die made room for another version to be born. Every heartbreak, every fear I finally faced, every season I thought would break me helped shape the way I love, the way I care, the way I move through the world today.

I don’t think I could have felt this grateful just for being alive without experiencing all of those little deaths and rebirths within myself.

Forty feels amazing.

My brain hasn’t caught up. I still feel like the same person I was at 21. The funny thing is, when I see photos of the people I grew up with, they look exactly the same to me too.

Maybe that’s the secret.

Maybe none of us ever really change at our core.

We remain ourselves. We simply spend a lifetime learning to love that person more deeply, accept them more fully, work with our strengths, forgive our weaknesses, and find gentler ways through the insecurities that sometimes get in our own way.

The goal was never to become someone else.

The goal was to finally become at home with who we’ve been all along.

Yesterday started off as a wonderful day. It felt like opening a brand new library book for the first time. You know tha...
07/13/2026

Yesterday started off as a wonderful day. It felt like opening a brand new library book for the first time. You know that feeling when you turn to the very first page and it’s crisp, untouched, full of possibility? That’s what the day felt like. But little by little, that fresh page started to wrinkle. Then it crumpled.

There was a time in my life when a day like yesterday wouldn’t have ended yesterday. It would’ve become today and probably tomorrow too. I would’ve replayed every conversation until I couldn’t tell the difference between what had actually happened and what my mind had created afterward. This time was different.

As I reflected later, it reminded me of Beetlejuice (don’t ask. my brain makes strange connections), where they open all those different doors that lead to different worlds. It felt like one of those doors had opened. On the other side wasn’t just rumination. It was a role I’d been playing for much of my life: trying to control the situation, fix it, take care of everyone, and somehow prevent the inevitable.

As I looked through that door, I realized that walking through it again would only ask me to keep doing the same job I’d been trying to do for years: managing someone else’s choices while forgetting that I still had my own.

So instead of stepping through the door, I simply looked inside, recognized it, and closed it.

Today I’m still annoyed, and I think that’s okay. Being annoyed doesn’t mean I’ve gone backward and it doesn’t have to pull me into the past or convince me that the future is already ruined.

When I think about yesterday, I don’t see a ruined page anymore. I see a page that got crumpled. The wrinkles are still there, but I can still read every word that matters.

And then…

I get to turn the page.

I’ve always been a thinker.Truth, certainty, and understanding have always mattered deeply to me.I remember frustrating ...
07/02/2026

I’ve always been a thinker.

Truth, certainty, and understanding have always mattered deeply to me.

I remember frustrating my teachers in Catholic school because I couldn’t simply accept information at face value. I wanted proof. I wanted to know why something was true.

That part of me became one of my greatest strengths as a therapist, but also one of the biggest hurdles in my own healing.

These days, I actually love working with intellectual clients.

We’re often past psychoeducation and insight before we even begin. They’ve done the reading, listened to the podcasts, and identified the patterns.

And yet they ask:

“If I understand all of this, why do I still feel so lousy?”

Because insight and healing aren’t always the same thing.

At some point, the work shifts.

From:

“Why do I feel this way?”

to:

“Can I experience this feeling without immediately trying to explain it?”

We move from understanding grief to grieving, understanding anxiety to allowing uncertainty, and understanding safety to experiencing safety.

I don’t see these clients as difficult or resistant.

I see people who learned that understanding was safety.

My goal is rarely to help them think less.

It’s helping them trust themselves enough to experience more.

To move from observer to participant.

Because the mind learns through information.

The nervous system learns through experience.

If this sounds like you or your clients, I hope these slides are helpful.

I’ve always been a thinker! Truth, certainty, and understanding have always mattered deeply to me.I remember frustratin...
07/02/2026

I’ve always been a thinker! Truth, certainty, and understanding have always mattered deeply to me.

I remember frustrating my teachers in Catholic school because I couldn’t simply accept information at face value. I wanted proof and I wanted to know why it was true.

That part of me became one of my greatest strengths as a therapist but one of my greatest hurdles in my healing.

But now, I adore working with intellectual clients! They actually make my job easier.

We’re often past psychoeducation and insight before we even begin. They know attachment theory, trauma responses, nervous system states, family systems, and exactly why they do what they do.

They’ve done the reading.
They’ve listened to the podcasts.
They’ve identified the patterns.

And yet they ask:

“If I understand all of this, why do I still feel so lousy?”

Because insight and healing are not always the same thing.

At some point, the work shifts.

From:

“Why do I feel this way?”

to:

“Can I experience this feeling without immediately explaining it?”

We move from logical truth to lived experience.

From understanding grief to grieving.
From understanding vulnerability to risking connection.
From understanding anxiety to allowing uncertainty.
From understanding safety to experiencing safety.

Many therapists describe intellectual clients as difficult, resistant, or defended.

I tend to see people who learned that understanding was safety.

People who became incredibly skilled observers of their own lives.

My invitation is rarely to think less.

It’s to experience more.

To move from observer to participant.

Clinically, this shift often reduces rumination, increases distress tolerance and psychological flexibility, improves nervous system regulation, and creates the corrective emotional experiences that insight alone cannot provide.

Because the mind learns through information.

The nervous system learns through experience.

If this sounds like you or your clients, I hope these slides are helpful.



I’ve spent most of my career in community mental health, supported employment, supported education, and rehabilitation s...
06/24/2026

I’ve spent most of my career in community mental health, supported employment, supported education, and rehabilitation services. So when I hear discussions about pulling back support for community-based disability services, it gets my attention (and frankly, makes me want to cuss someone out)

I’ve seen what these services actually do.

I’ve watched people who were told they would never work get jobs because someone believed in them and supported them. I’ve seen adults with serious mental illness stay housed, avoid hospitalization, build relationships, and create meaningful lives because they had community support.

One person I worked with had autism and did not use words to communicate. Through supported employment services and an incredible team of job coaches, he got a job. He worked. He contributed. He was proud of himself. It’s been a decade now, and he still holds that job. This is just ONE of the dozens of stories I have personally experienced.

Don’t we want that?

Don’t we want people participating in their communities, building relationships, having purpose, dignity, and a sense of belonging?

These programs don’t just support people with disabilities. They create jobs for social workers, rehabilitation counselors, job coaches, direct support professionals, and case managers who work tirelessly to help others succeed.

The disability rights movement fought tooth and nail to get us here. I’ll never forget learning about the conditions people were subjected to in institutions and understanding why advocates spent decades fighting for community integration.

People with disabilities have the same right as anyone else to live, work, learn, and thrive in their communities.

This isn’t charity, it’s community. I won’t get too political, but we see where the money goes these days and I just can’t fathom wanting THAT over support and inclusion that makes our communities vibrant. So, yeah. If it means something to you, like it does for me please don’t stay silent

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06/12/2026

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