Andrew Flautt, MA

I'm Andrew Wright, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC - Illinois) and National Certified Counselor (NCC) with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Before relocating to the Netherlands, I worked with clients across a wide range of backgrounds, presentations, and life circumstances in Chicago, individuals navigating anxiety, depression, identity, grief, major transitions, and the quiet but persistent sense that something in their life isn't quite right. 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. 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, I take them seriously. We look at how you relate to meaning, choice, freedom, and the uncertainty that's woven into any life honestly lived. In practice, this isn't abstract philosophy, it's close, careful attention to your actual life. Your relationships, your patterns, your losses, your hopes. I work particularly well with expats and international professionals, people who have chosen disruption, or had it chosen for them, and are finding that the move raised questions they didn't expect. That experience of being between worlds, of rebuilding identity in unfamiliar surroundings, is one I know from the inside. It has a texture that's worth taking seriously in the room. 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. The work is collaborative and unhurried, and it tends to produce not just relief, but clarity.