Dr. Andrada Mihaila, Ed.D., LMHC, LPC, NCC
She/Her
“The moments I feel most drawn to are the ones where everything is trembling—when a person is holding grief in one hand and hope in the other. When a relationship is quietly unraveling, or someone realizes the story they’ve lived no longer fits. In my personal life, I seek calm and steadiness, but in my clinical work, I am drawn to the emotional fault lines—those raw, tender places where something honest is finally breaking open.”
For Andrada, healing begins when people stop trying to hold themselves together long enough to tell the truth. She works with couples during periods of profound transition: grief that reorders the world, trauma that reshapes connection, relationships strained by silence or longing, and the quiet suffering that comes from feeling alone in a partnership. Her approach blends presence, depth, humor, and a fierce respect for what the human spirit can endure.
As an immigrant and first-generation scholar, Andrada brings an intimate understanding of resilience—how it forms, fractures, and can be rebuilt. Her doctoral research explored the lived experiences of first-generation Romanian immigrants, and her clinical work continues to be shaped by a deep awareness of culture, identity, loss, and the stories we inherit. She is especially passionate about supporting couples navigating relational trauma, emotional overwhelm, and complex family patterns.
Andrada’s therapeutic foundation is deeply experiential and body-centered. She has completed extensive advanced training in the Body-Centered Psychotherapy Training Program at the Hartford Family Institute—one of the country’s oldest and most respected mind–body psychotherapy training centers. This cutting-edge, integrative approach blends in-depth emotional process work, somatic awareness, and trauma healing.
Andrada helps couples access the wisdom of the body, uncover the deeper emotional layers beneath surface-level conflicts, and support healing at its roots. She works with the “felt sense” of experience, tracks subtle shifts in the room, and helps partners connect with their core selves and each other in ways that are transformative and deeply regulating.
This approach strengthens her ability to sit with intensity, guide couples through complex emotional terrain, and support profound shifts in relational patterns that may have remained unchanged for years. Above all, Andrada shows up as a human being—someone who respects the courage it takes to let another person witness your pain, and the vulnerability required to heal alongside your partner.
Services Offered: Andrada provides couples therapy in person at our Northampton center and online throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. Services are offered in English and Romanian.
Ask me about: Growing up in Romania, my love of teaching, the psychology of resilience, and why I believe grief is one of the most sacred forms of love.
Ever since I was young, I’ve been: Curious about people’s stories—what shaped them, what wounded them, and what allowed them to rise again.
Favorite quote: I will not rescue you, for you are not powerless. I will not fix you, for you are not broken. I will not heal you, for I see you in your wholeness. I will walk with you through the darkness as you remember your own light” — Sheree Bliss Tilsley.
Favorite kind of clients: Those willing to show up honestly—those ready to sit with their contradictions and divisive differences: strength and fear, love and anger, hope and exhaustion. Andrada especially cherishes working with people navigating grief, trauma, identity, cultural transition, and the quietest heartbreaks that don’t always have a name.
Credentials:
Ed.D. in Counseling & Supervision – American International College
Dissertation: Resilience Formation in First-Generation Romanian Immigrants
Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) – Massachusetts
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) – Connecticut
National Certified Counselor (NCC) – National Board for Certified Counselors
Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level I and Level II
Body-Centered Psychotherapy, Hartford Family Institute (5 years completed)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Grief Counseling & Traumatic Loss
Multicultural & Immigrant Mental Health