Andrew Bland, PhD

Licensed Psychologist

Andrew is a licensed psychologist. He provides therapeutic services to adults (including older adults) whose concerns include anxiety, mood/motivation, OCD, and trauma; interpersonal relationships; work-life balance; issues involving identity, inclusivity, meaning, spirituality, developmental transitions, and existential issues; and other matters. He also works with couples and families.

Andrew operates from the stance that people want from therapy both solutions to their problems and to get to the root of them. He believes that meaning can be found in and created out of the most difficult circumstances and that what in life makes the least sense often is what we want to pay the most attention to. His collaborative therapeutic approach invites people to live more presently; to attune to their full-bodied, full-person experience; to become more comfortable sitting with uncertainty; to appreciate the multiple dilemmas and contextual factors at play in their concerns; and to become more attuned to their values—and, with that, more safe and empowered to live as they choose as well as more intentional and authentic as they do so.

Andrew earned a master’s degree from the University of West Georgia’s humanistic psychology program and a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Indiana State University. For over 20 years, he has provided therapeutic services in numerous settings including community mental health, hospitals, schools and college counseling centers, and corrections in four states. He joined the Samaritan Center staff in 2016. In addition to his counseling work here, Andrew teaches psychology and trains psychotherapists at Millersville University.

Publications:

The Lightning Bolt Symbol: Journey Toward Growth

The Crisis of Conversation In Our Culture

Boundary Situations: Opportunities for Presence, Revaluation, and Intentionality

Andrew is not accepting new clients at this time.

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