Andrew Wilton LCSW

Integrative Psychotherapy

In-Person and Online Therapy
Buffalo + New York

Integrative Behavioral Therapy for Individuals

Life comes with struggle and triumph, pain and possibility. I’m here to walk with you on an empowering journey of self-exploration and growth to relieve anxiety, depression, and stress, navigate life transitions, cope with grief and loss, craft healthy relationships, build resilience, and come into your best self for life’s present chapter. Individual therapy can provide a safe and supportive environment to acknowledge your emotions, face your fears, identify your needs, and step into a life worth living.

This is a place for explorers, deep thinkers, hard workers, and wandering souls.

Rooted in humanistic values, minimalist philosophy, modern mindfulness, and generations of evidence-based behavioral science, I offer an integrative approach to psychotherapy for adults that supports you in deconstructing and working through the challenges of contemporary life.

You’re welcome here.

Reach out for your free 15 minute consultation.

It can be difficult to seek support during challenging times. I hope to make that process safe and welcoming. Reach out today for a free 15 minute phone consultation. You can share a bit about what you’re facing and I’ll share a bit about how I can help.

Andrew Wilton, Psychotherapist in Buffalo, NY

I’m Andrew Wilton, clinical social worker & psychotherapist in Buffalo.

As a therapist, social worker, educator, and fellow traveler, I’ve always believed the most valuable pathways forward come from within. Often, they go unnoticed, hidden, suppressed. Through awareness and intention, we can navigate those pathways with autonomy and congruence.

I offer an individually curated psychotherapy for adults and work primarily through a behavioral approach and humanistic stance. It’s this framework that supports an empowering process rooted in empathy, curiosity, creativity, and choice.

Perhaps this is how therapy was intended to be - enriching, constructive, supportive, and refreshingly human.

Andrew Wilton LCSW

Psychotherapy Services for Emotional Well-being

I offer sessions via secure telehealth for individuals across New York State and Vermont, and in-person at my Western New York office.

Support is available for a variety of concerns and needs, including anxiety, depression, stress, life transitions and adjustments, grief and loss, relationship issues, attention and focus, sleep and insomnia, trauma and adversity, and more.

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and more broadly, acceptance-based behavioral therapy (ABBT), is an extensively researched therapeutic approach blending mindfulness, self-observation, values clarification, and committed action. It emphasizes non-judgmental awareness of and openness to a full range of human emotion and thought, while orienting toward engagement in personally meaningful actions across life domains. Research shows ACT can be effective in addressing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, insomnia, ADHD, and more.

  • Assertiveness training has long been established within cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and involves a flexible series of educational and experiential strategies for improving relationships and self-esteem through assertive communication. Because of its focus on validating and expressing emotions, needs, and interpersonal boundaries, assertiveness training is especially effective in addressing social anxiety, unexpressed anger, and relationship dissatisfaction.

  • Behavioral activation (BA) is a time-tested core component of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and has more recently been established as a highly effective standalone model for addressing depression, mood regulation, and social withdrawal. It encourages monitoring correlations between mood and activity, gradually reengaging in personally valued activities that enhance satisfaction, motivation, mastery, and well-being.

  • Behavior modification is the practice of changing patterns of behavior using various scientifically-formulated strategies, such as reinforcement, behavior chains, and environmental manipulation. Highly practical and data-driven, behavior modification can be effective in addressing concerns with attention, focus, and sleep, repetitive behaviors, habit formation, and lifestyle enhancement.

  • Often considered to be a derivative form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), problem-solving therapy (PST) is a short-term therapeutic approach for strengthening problem-solving and in turn, an ability to navigate various life stressors. Through clearly defining a problem, identifying and evaluating a range of alternative possibilities, implementing decision-making strategies, and troubleshooting and/or sustaining implementation of chosen solutions, PST can offer transferrable tools effective in addressing depression, stress, anxiety, and life transitions.

  • Supportive psychotherapy is a flexible approach to improving self-esteem, coping skills, and quality of life through active listening, education, problem-solving, validation, encouragement, and skill-building. Perhaps the most widely practiced form of therapy, recent scientific research highlights supportive psychotherapy as a practical and effective modality of choice in managing general mental health concerns, such as anxiety, depression, and grief.

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu