Andrea "Andi" Sparrow

Andi  works in private practice in Frankfort, KY. She provides individual therapy services to adults and adolescents.
Andi is a part-time instructor for the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky. She has taught BSW and MSW courses for the past four years. She enjoys being an integral team member in teaching new social workers.
Andi is an active member of KSCSW. She assists in facilitating KSCSW’s monthly peer supervision meetings.
Before working in private practice, Andi worked in various community mental health agencies in central Kentucky, such as Key Assets, SAFY of Lexington, UK’s Center of Trauma and Children (CTAC), and Nolachuckey Mental Health Center, which is in east Tennessee. She has extensive experience working with children, families, and adults who need mental health services. During her employment with these agencies, Andi cultivated collaborative and working relationships with other community providers to try to help meet the client’s needs. 
In 2014, Andi was an employee of UK CTAC and she organized, facilitated, and assisted in training various community service providers throughout Kentucky about the importance of trauma-informed care.  Andi took a small break from the field of social work in 2007. She explored retail management. This experience enhanced her leadership skills but most importantly, stoked the passion she has for the field of social work.  She left retail management, started the journey of graduate school, and obtained her MSW from UK in 2014. Andi continues to advance her social work education and will start work on her DSW in the fall of 2022 at the University of Louisville, Kent School of Social Work.
Andi is passionate about self-care. She enjoys spending time gardening, raising backyard chickens, learning how to play the banjo, playing fetch with her black lab, Sadie, camping, and hosting family gatherings. She encourages others to make self-care a priority and to enjoy the little things we can do daily to take care of ourselves. Andi wants to continue to advocate for changing or enhancing organizational self-care to promote healthy work environments and reduce rates of burnout and attrition for social workers.