Andrea Wachter, LMFT

Psychotherapist, Author, & Teacher

If you are filled with anxious thoughts and sensations, this practice will guide you to directly and compassionately address that anxiety. As you listen, I encourage you to repeat after me and offer your heartfelt compassion and wisdom to your mind and body. Wishing you peace, relief, and a deep sense of presence.

This practice helps you address anxiety by offering compassion and wisdom to your mind and body. Repeat along and feel peace, relief, and presence.

A Message To Anxiety

One of the best times to recite or receive positive messages is right before we fall asleep. This is a perfect opportunity to plant seeds into our subconscious minds. Get yourself cozy and ready for sleep, and join Andrea as she recites a series of soothing affirmations that you can repeat, or simply absorb, as you drift off into a deep relaxing sleep.

Recite positive messages before bed to plant seeds in your subconscious mind with Andrea's soothing affirmations for a deep, relaxing sleep.

Bedtime Affirmations

This practice begins with a gentle mind/body relaxation. You'll then be asked to imagine a beautiful orbit of light. The light you create will then be used to bring healing, and a quality of your choosing, into your day.

Relax and imagine a healing light in this practice that brings a quality of your choice into your day.

Bright Light Healing

Research has shown that regularly practicing an attitude of gratitude is one of the most powerful methods of increasing happiness, health, optimism, perspective, and even a good night’s sleep! Join Andrea for a deep gratitude practice where you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the uplifting feelings of gratitude in various areas of your life.

Practicing gratitude increases happiness, health, and perspective; join Andrea for a deep gratitude practice to immerse yourself in uplifting feelings.

Gratitude Immersion

Take a healing trip to a sandy beach in this gentle visualization and allow Andrea to guide you to surrender your stressors to the powerful sea.

Andrea guides you to surrender stressors during a healing beach visualization.

Ocean Surrender

If you are suffering from panic or anxiety, this guided meditation can help you quiet your mind and calm your nervous system. Please feel free to do this practice while sitting, standing, or lying down.

Guided meditation can help ease anxiety and panic by calming your nervous system. Practice while sitting, standing or lying down.

Panic And Anxiety Relief

If you are feeling stress, anxiety, or panic, this practice will walk you through a process of self-soothing. First, you will hear a variety of self-soothing statements. Then, you will have the opportunity to repeat one of your choosing and offer yourself some comfort and compassion.

Learn to self-soothe during stress, anxiety, or panic by repeating comforting statements and offering yourself compassion with this guided practice.

Self-Soothing Statements For Anxiety

This meditation can help you ease any anxious thoughts and sensations by giving them the compassion and comfort they need. This process is based on the work of Don Hadlock from The Process Therapy Institute and Richard Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems.

Meditation eases anxiety by providing compassion and comfort to troubled thoughts and sensations, based on work from Don Hadlock and Richard Schwartz.

Soothing Anxiety

Allow this gentle guided meditation to lull you to sleep, help you fall back asleep, or simply experience a deep state of rest.

A gentle guided meditation to help you sleep or experience rest.

Ease Insomnia

Receive and recite these gentle affirmations and allow yourself to decrease resistance and increase a state of peace.

Recite gentle affirmations to decrease resistance and increase peace.

Letting Go And Living In The Flow

If you have experienced any type of loss or heartbreak, join Andrea as she gently guides you through a deep and healing process. This guided meditation will help you meet your grief with curiosity, compassion, and comfort. This process is based on the work of Don Hadlock from the Process Therapy Institute and Richard Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems.

Join Andrea in a guided meditation to heal your grief with curiosity, compassion, and comfort, based on the work of Don Hadlock and Richard Schwartz.

Comforting Grief

Whether you are feeling tense and want to relax, or you simply want to deepen your state of relaxation, join Andrea for this gentle body scan followed by a series of calming affirmations.

Relax with Andrea's gentle body scan and calming affirmations to deepen relaxation and ease tension.

Deep Relaxation

The human mind leads many people to live in constant modes of insufficiency and striving. In this practice, we will be inviting in feelings of enoughness by focusing on appreciation, acceptance, abundance, and allowing.

Cultivate feelings of enoughness by practicing appreciation, acceptance, abundance, and allowing to combat constant striving and insufficiency.

Finding Enoughness

Join Andrea for a gentle and powerful meditation that fosters the feeling states of flow and strength. We’ll first tap into the peaceful feeling of flow, and then we will embody strength and power. Finally, we will pave a gentle and grounded approach to living both in the flow of life and in your powerful strength.

Join Andrea for a meditation promoting the feeling states of flow and strength, fostering a gentle and grounded approach to living.

Flow & Strength

If you struggle with uncontrollable overeating or binge eating, these messages can help you on the path to restoring a more balanced, respectful, and non-restrictive relationship with food. Feel free to listen to this recording in a meditative setting or as you go about your day.

Listen to these messages to restore a balanced and respectful relationship with food and overcome overeating/binge eating, in a meditative or daily setting.

Getting Over Overeating

Mornings are an excellent time to plant empowering and uplifting messages in our brains, to help us start the day on a positive note. Join Andrea for a brief mindfulness meditation followed by a series of soothing and health-affirming statements that you can repeat or simply absorb.

Start your day off positively with a brief mindfulness meditation and health-affirming statements to repeat or absorb.

Morning Affirmations

This guided practice can help you release any relationship ties that you are ready to let go of. Andrea will walk you through the process of identifying any outdated or draining energetic ties and gently release them. This meditation is best done in a seated position.

Learn to release toxic relationship ties with Andrea's guided meditation in a seated position, identifying and gently letting go of draining connections.

Releasing Toxic Ties

Use this short, simple three-step process anytime you'd like to get grounded and connect with yourself. Whether you want to decrease stress and tension, or simply tune in with your body, mind, and heart, this mini-meditation can help.

A three-step process for grounding and connecting with oneself to decrease stress and tension and tune in with body, mind, and heart.

Body-Mind-Heart Check-In

If you struggle with the painful cycle of restrictive dieting and uncontrollable overeating, this meditation is for you. Join psychotherapist Andrea Wachter, as she gently guides you through a compassionate and healing inner dialogue that can help you heal your relationship with food.

Join psychotherapist Andrea Wachter for a compassionate inner dialogue meditation to heal your relationship with food and break the cycle of dieting.

Healing The Diet/Riot Cycle

If you struggle with insomnia, join Andrea Wachter for this relaxing journey. First, we will release the internal pressure to fall asleep, which is often ironically what keeps people awake. Then we will do a relaxing body scan followed by a simple counting practice that can be quite hypnotic and relaxing.

Andrea Wachter offers a relaxing journey for those struggling with insomnia, beginning with releasing internal pressure and followed by a body scan and counting practice.

Insomnia Aid

Today’s practice is based on the well-known prayer called, The Serenity Prayer, which was written by American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1930s. We will be reciting a series of affirmations that were inspired by Niebuhr’s wise words. Feel free to listen while you are seated, reclined, or taking a peaceful walk.

Practice based on The Serenity Prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1930s. Recite affirmations while seated, reclined, or walking peacefully.

Serenity Prayer Meditation

In this practice, we will be doing a full-body scan, encouraging and allowing each body part to soften, release, and relax. Whether you would like to use this time to prepare for sleep or use it to simply meditate and enjoy a period of relaxation, get comfortable and join Andrea for this calming journey.

Join Andrea for a full body scan to relax and prepare for sleep or meditation.

Complete Relaxation & Sleep Preparation

This talk is for anyone who is struggling with depression. Andrea discusses eight key tools that helped her overcome major depression and serve as the foundation of the work she does with clients and students.

Andrea shares 8 tools to overcome major depression in a talk that can help anyone struggling with depression.

8 Tips to Overcome Depression

Are you tired of riding the diet/riot roller coaster? Feel tempted to embark on yet another fad diet? Instead, join psychotherapist Andrea Wachter as she discusses the negative consequences of dieting and the alternative to a “die-it" that she calls a "Live-It." Whether you struggle with uncontrollable overeating, binge eating, body image, or all of these painful issues, this talk is for you.

Psychotherapist Andrea Wachter discusses the negative consequences of dieting and offers an alternative approach called "Live-It" to tackle overeating, binge eating, and body image issues.

Why Diets Don’t Work and What Does

In this powerful talk, Andrea discusses six ways to upgrade the ingrained programs that can lead to a bad body image. Learn what you can do to help shift the cultural trend of body image obsession and perfection.

Andrea discusses ways to upgrade ingrained programs for a better body image and shift cultural trends of obsession and perfection.

How To Stop The Bad Body Image Epidemic

Join Andrea for a peaceful sleep "by the sea.” A relaxing body scan with soothing statements, accompanied by the tranquil sound of the ocean, prepares you for deep rest. Get yourself cozy and comfortable and ready to release the day, as the ocean waves lull you to sleep.

Andrea invites you to a peaceful sleep by the sea with a relaxing body scan and soothing statements, accompanied by the tranquil sound of the ocean.

Sleep By The Sea

If your mind is racing with thoughts and worries or trying to figure out a problem that has not yet become clear, this practice is for you. Join Andrea as she speaks directly to your busy mind, offering it soothing solutions and a calm way out of the painful pattern of overthinking. Feel free to absorb her words, or change them up to better fit what you need to hear right now.

Andrea offers a practice to calm your overthinking mind and provide soothing solutions to problems.

Quieting Your Busy Mind

This practice is about improving the quality of your self-parenting. Join psychotherapists Andrea Wachter and Steve Legallet as they walk you through some of the most important qualities of conscious, compassionate parenting. They will then guide you in a healing affirmation meditation that invites you to absorb some loving parenting messages.

Psychotherapists guide you in improving self-parenting quality through conscious, compassionate parenting and healing affirmation meditation.

Conscious, Compassionate Self-Parenting

Join psychotherapists (and spouses) Andrea Wachter and Steve Legallet as they guide you through some conscious relationship affirmations that can lead to more compassionate and productive conversations.

Psychotherapists Andrea Wachter and Steve Legallet offer conscious relationship affirmations for more compassionate and productive conversations.

Conscious Relationship Affirmations

Join Andrea for a relaxing full-body scan, followed by soothing sleep-inducing statements to help you drift off to sleep.

Andrea offers a calming full-body scan and uses sleep-inducing statements to help you relax and fall asleep easily.

Peaceful Sleep Statements

This practice will help you tap into various states by using images, memories, or thoughts of nature. First, we will tap into the strength and groundedness of trees. Then the clarity and peace of the open sky. Next, we’ll tap into the heartfelt opening of a beautiful flower, followed by the gentle flow of water.

Learn how to access different states by visualizing nature: connecting with the strength of trees, the clarity of the sky, the beauty of flowers, and the flow of water.

Connecting With Nature

If you are feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or drained, join Andrea for this healing practice. First, you'll have the opportunity to release any emotional ties or energetic cords that are depleting your energy. Then, we will be surrounding you with a beautiful bubble of healing light.

Join Andrea's healing practice to release emotional ties and energetic cords, followed by surrounding yourself with a bubble of healing light for stress relief.

Release Draining Cords & Connections

Drawing from the Buddhist teaching of The Eight Worldy Winds, Andrea will guide you through a brief talk and visualization to help you navigate through the challenging chapter of divorce.

Andrea uses Buddhist teachings to help individuals navigate the challenges of divorce through a brief talk and visualization.

Weathering The Winds Of Divorce

If you struggle with worrying, join Andrea as she guides you through a compassionate way to speak to your worried mind. You can feel free to listen and absorb her words or you can imagine your own heart speaking directly to your mind.

Learn how to speak compassionately to your worried mind and find inner peace with Andrea's guidance in this insightful audio session.

Soothing A Worried Mind

Whether you are in a seated posture or going about your day, this short practice can help you get centered and grounded. Listen anytime you'd like to slow down and connect with the present moment.

A short practice to help you feel centered and grounded, whether seated or active, and connect with the present moment anytime you need it.

A Few Mindful Moments

This practice is intended to help you as you navigate through the process of divorce. First, you’ll be guided to direct some compassionate statements to yourself. Then, you'll be asked to direct some statements to your ex. This might bring up strong emotions so please only listen to this recording when it feels like you’re in the space and have the time to welcome your emotions.

Guided practice for navigating divorce emotions by directing compassion towards self and ex, listen when ready to welcome emotions.

Healing From Divorce

Join Andrea in a series of compassionate statements that are intended to help you heal and strengthen your connection with your body.

Andrea guides you through compassionate statements to heal and strengthen your body connection.

Body Apologies & Appreciations

If you struggle with an overactive mind, these soothing words can help. You can allow Andrea's words to speak directly to your busy mind or you can sense your wise, compassionate heart speaking to your mind anytime it starts doing its monkey minding!

Soothing words from Andrea or your compassionate heart can help calm an overactive mind and stop monkey mind chatter.

Taming The Monkey Mind

This brief meditation will guide you to connect with your heart and spread that healing feeling throughout your body and beyond. Use this anytime you want to shift or uplift your energy.

Connect with your heart and spread healing throughout your body and beyond with this brief meditation, perfect for shifting your energy.

Expanding Heart

Whether your mind is busy with thoughts, or your body is filled with uneasy sensations, this short meditation will help you drop into the present moment, where peace awaits you.

A short meditation helps to bring peace to the present moment amidst busy thoughts and uneasy sensations.

Anchoring in Presence

This practice guides you through the powerful process of filling up with the feeling of love and then extending your own loving gaze toward your body.

Practice filling up with love and extending a loving gaze towards the body.

Body Love

Whether you are hoping to decrease stress and tension, or simply enjoy some deep relaxation, this guided meditation invites you to visualize one of the earth's elements and utilize it to facilitate healing, peace, and calm.

Guided meditation using earth's elements for relaxation, stress reduction, and healing.

Calming with Earth Elements

A simple meditation to calm your mind and experience a sense of safety at the moment.

Meditation to calm the mind and feel safe.

Feeling Safe In This Moment

Using the peaceful imagery of a tropical breeze, this guided meditation will help you relax your body and calm your mind.

Guided meditation using tropical imagery for relaxation and calming the mind.

Tropical Breeze Breathing

This guided meditation will help you quiet your mind, calm your body, and soothe your nervous system. Whether you are feeling stressed, anxious, or panic, join Andrea for this multi-faceted journey and experience more peace in your day.

Meditation to calm mind & body, soothe nervous system;reduce stress, anxiety & panic. Join Andrea for a journey to experience more peace in your day.

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