I’m Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth, and I'm on a joyful quest for a deeper wisdom.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been on this quest. I have a natural spiritual curiosity and a deep interest in understanding (and facilitating) human growth, healing, and transformation. These passions led me to spend over a decade researching and teaching in the academic fields of religion, spirituality, and neuropsychology.
In my mid-thirties, just having landed my dream job at Boston University, I found myself at a crossroads. My dad was dying, a niece was caught in the child protection system, and my husband and I were wanting to begin a family. Deep down, I knew that the breakneck pace of professorship at a research university was keeping me from my truest self—a self who was mindful, compassionate, joyful, present, open, unrushed, and unafraid. It was time to really walk pathways of sacred wisdom instead of just studying them.
And so, after devoting the entirety of my young adult years to ascending the ladder of higher education, in 2016, I walked away.
It’s been five years since I made that change, and I’m so glad I did. I’m not just Dr. Hollingsworth anymore; I’m a mama and an auntie, a greenhorn gardener and a novice yogi. I now have time for the people, places, activities, and things that make my life so wonderfully rich.
I’m finding immense joy in my roles as teacher and counselor. In my workshops and courses, I delight in taking the academic research I spent so much of my life on, and re-packaging it in beautiful and accessible ways so that it nourishes and inspires a broader audience. And in my counseling practice, it's an honor to help individuals navigating issues such as complex trauma, addiction, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and stressful life transitions. I especially enjoy working with adult women seeking support through significant life transitions, and people seeking spiritual deepening and growth. I believe the added presence of horses in therapy brings an opportunity to heal and grow at an even more profound level.
I live in Maple Grove, Minnesota, with my husband, Ryan, and our four-year-old son, Bennett.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been on this quest. I have a natural spiritual curiosity and a deep interest in understanding (and facilitating) human growth, healing, and transformation. These passions led me to spend over a decade researching and teaching in the academic fields of religion, spirituality, and neuropsychology.
In my mid-thirties, just having landed my dream job at Boston University, I found myself at a crossroads. My dad was dying, a niece was caught in the child protection system, and my husband and I were wanting to begin a family. Deep down, I knew that the breakneck pace of professorship at a research university was keeping me from my truest self—a self who was mindful, compassionate, joyful, present, open, unrushed, and unafraid. It was time to really walk pathways of sacred wisdom instead of just studying them.
And so, after devoting the entirety of my young adult years to ascending the ladder of higher education, in 2016, I walked away.
It’s been five years since I made that change, and I’m so glad I did. I’m not just Dr. Hollingsworth anymore; I’m a mama and an auntie, a greenhorn gardener and a novice yogi. I now have time for the people, places, activities, and things that make my life so wonderfully rich.
I’m finding immense joy in my roles as teacher and counselor. In my workshops and courses, I delight in taking the academic research I spent so much of my life on, and re-packaging it in beautiful and accessible ways so that it nourishes and inspires a broader audience. And in my counseling practice, it's an honor to help individuals navigating issues such as complex trauma, addiction, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and stressful life transitions. I especially enjoy working with adult women seeking support through significant life transitions, and people seeking spiritual deepening and growth. I believe the added presence of horses in therapy brings an opportunity to heal and grow at an even more profound level.
I live in Maple Grove, Minnesota, with my husband, Ryan, and our four-year-old son, Bennett.