You want a
FULFILLING LIFE
Alive Explorations can help you thrive!
We provide Online Holistic Wellness services designed to help you
build a better life!
Whether you need holistic Mental Health Counseling or Virtual Life Coaching for personal growth, we’re here to help you.
Welcome to Alive Explorations Wellness Center
where we understand how overwhelming life can feel.
Maybe you’re juggling responsibilities, stuck in a cycle of stress and exhaustion. Perhaps you’re wrestling with deeper questions about purpose and fulfillment. No matter your situation, you’re in the right place, whether your life feels out of balance or you’re ready to make a thoughtful life change
Our mission is to help you reclaim your peace, connect with your purpose, and design a life that truly feels like yours.
We offer holistic mental health counseling, lifestyle design coaching, and spiritual integration services — all from the convenience of your home.
Alive Explorations is growing into a collaborative online wellness center of holistic practitioners. This collective is passionate about your wellness journey toward healing and self-discovery. This is your space to feel seen, supported, and inspired as you create the life you deserve.
Take a look around and explore our services, like Counseling in Virginia & Florida or Lifestyle Design. Discover how Alive Explorations can guide you toward more balance, clarity, and joy.
Hi, I’m Andrea Shipley.
You’re looking for the best counselor or lifestyle coach near you. You want to finally become the best version of yourself and transform your life for the better
I’ve dedicated years of my life to becoming the kind of Holistic Counselor (LPC in Virginia & Florida) and Lifestyle Design Coach I always hoped I’d find. In fact, I’ve dedicated years to learning what it takes to live a fulfilling life of balance.
You might be wondering how to be happy just being you!
When you enter a relationship with me (through Lifestyle Design Coaching or online Holistic Therapy in Virginia or Florida), you’ll have a mentor, confidante, and healer on your side. I’ll offer gentle guidance and thoughtful challenges. This will help you contact your inner knowing, which holds the keys to your authentic success and well-being.
I have no doubt that you can accomplish quite a lot on your own. However, if you feel stuck and unable to explore your potential alone, then it’s time to reach out for help from someone who knows the terrain of healing and transformation.
Support Alive Explorations
Whether Counseling in Virginia & Florida or Lifestyle Design Coaching:
Perhaps you’re doing “ok” in life but you feel stuck, bored, or unsatisfied … so you want to ramp things up by re-designing your lifestyle in order to create a more fulfilling life and evolve consciously,
OR you feel really stressed and overwhelmed, like you’re just kind of scraping by in life so you think counseling / therapy can help you build that strong emotional foundation…
Either way, are you ready to make the most of your unique journey and invest in a healthier life?
There’s something here for you…
What's the best option for you?
Online Counseling is ideal if you have anxiety or depression
Therapy / counseling is likely the best option if you’re experiencing severe emotional pain or mental health issues like:
- Feelings of anxiety or depression
- Lasting effects of trauma
- Impulsivity
- Spiritual or existential concerns
Therapy (also known as counseling) helps you build a strong emotional foundation and healthy coping skills like self-awareness. It can help you recover from past hurts while creating stability in your current life.
If you’re located in Virginia or Florida, then set up a counseling consultation to see how we can help.
You’ll also see mindfulness therapy options available for people looking for Spiritual Counseling or coping with their high-stress work as Healthcare professionals.
EMDR is available as well, to support clients struggling with past or recent traumas and negative beliefs. EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Additionally, this modality can help you process the past and make positive changes quickly.
Lifestyle Design Coaching is a great fit if you have a pretty solid mental and emotional foundation already.
Perhaps you need clarity about what you really want before you make a decision. Or you need expert help to develop the courage and skills to create a bold and fulfilling life, while still working toward your professional goals.
Also, you can be located anywhere to work with Andrea as your coach.
Andrea walks her Lifestyle Design clients through her step-by-step process to clarify your ideal lifestyle goals and create a plan of action and the resilience to successfully create it.
You’ll see additional coaching options are available for Spiritual Integration. This is a great option for people making sense of spiritual experiences they’ve had with meditation, plant medicines or other practices and rituals.
*Please note that coaching is not medical and you will not receive a diagnosis or treatment of any mental health related issues. If you need mental health support, reach out for a counseling consultation with Andrea or check out an online counseling directory like Psychology Today to find the right therapist to help you.
It’s easy to fall into unhelpful routines…
You feel unsatisfied and out of balance and each day looks like the last.
You tell yourself that tomorrow is a new day and you’ll start doing the real work then. Tomorrow you’ll start to investigate difficult feelings and work on accepting yourself. Unfortunately, that tomorrow doesn’t come. You put it off for the next tomorrow instead … and the next. Will that day ever come?
What seemed like a short-term race can turn into years and decades of non-stop hustle and emotional avoidance.
It’s a little harder to create healthy routines!
The truth is, it won’t resolve on its own but you can choose to take action TODAY to improve your life. Reach out for online Counseling in Virginia & Florida with Andrea Shipley, LPC to start reducing anxiety and feeling more alive and intentional.
Testimonial about Lifestyle Design
“It’s about time we all start to line up with our North Star and put intention into our lives and lifestyles.
This course really helps one be the captain of their ship, to work with the elements of the universe and start to steer oneself towards their dreams and desires for a quality of life that fits them instead of hoping someone else will do it for us.
I grew a lot in this program, it challenged me to have integrity and follow my inner guidance, while becoming aware of the ways I sometimes block myself from a lifestyle and life that would be better suited for me. I highly recommend this program to those wanting to make a change in how they live. Andrea’s tools and resources are fantastic and you will be more prepared to make your life the way you want it, once you have gone through her program!”
-Madeline
Testimonial about Lifestyle Design
“A designed lifestyle is a big topic that many may think is out of their reach. Well, it isn’t. Andrea helps to break down your lifestyle’s big picture into snippets that can be handled and explored. Each week builds upon the next. Her program zeros in on your specific plan and works with your goals, values, capabilities and life.
As much as I thought this program would tighten up where I was already headed, it completely blew that lame plan out of the water and opened up the universe to me. My soul and heart so appreciates this safe and organized push out of my comfort zone into the life of my dreams. Thank you.”
-Jada
Counseling in Virginia & Florida or Lifestyle Design Coaching can help you take back ownership of your life.
Life can feel disappointing, scary, and outright irritating.
Especially when you get so overwhelmed that you aren’t taking the steps needed to be as healthy as possible and to live in a purposeful way.
Ultimately, you want a healthier lifestyle, balance, and fulfilling days, but you’re not sure the best path forward. There are intense feelings to navigate so you need a guide to point the way through.
The exhaustion and stress you feel suggest that it’s time to shift some things around so you can thrive in a more sustainable lifestyle.
Reach out to Andrea today to find out if counseling or coaching are what you’re looking for.
Come Alive. Explore Your Soul.
Design Your Life.
You don’t have to do it all alone.
And you might be shocked by the progress you can make once you’ve found the right guide.
Don’t wait any longer to devote yourself fully to your best life. I’m looking forward to helping you build it.
Schedule a free consultation as your next step toward committing to a better life.
There’s something here for you, whether it’s Counseling in Virginia & Florida or Lifestyle Design.
If you’re still not sure whether you would benefit more from online Mental Health Counseling or Lifestyle Coaching, we can talk about your situation and decide together on your free consultation.
