About Aen
Aen Brauer is a licensed clinical social worker in Washington with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those coping with grief and life changes. Her approach centers on steady, practical work in sessions that respect each person’s pace.
She creates a calm space for talking through hard thoughts and strong feelings. Conversations are direct and warm. The goal is to help people find clearer steps forward, not to rush solutions.
Background and approach
Aen uses methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice patterns and try different responses. She also draws on client-centered ideas to keep the work grounded in each person’s values and goals. Her experience includes helping people with addiction concerns, self-esteem and body image struggles, and challenges related to parenting, career change, or major life transitions.
She also supports people facing medical or caregiving stress and those navigating adoption or fertility concerns. Sessions can address relationship difficulties, eating and food-related issues, and the effects of trauma, domestic violence, or separation. Aen pays attention to the whole context of a person’s life when making a plan for therapy.
People who value practical tools and steady support tend to do well with her style. She works in a collaborative way, helping each person set realistic goals and try manageable steps between sessions.
Using therapeutic approaches online to manage anxiety and stress
Aen uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is hands-on and often includes practice between sessions to test what works for day-to-day anxiety or mood concerns.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people notice difficult feelings without getting stuck and clarify what matters most. ACT is useful for coping with chronic stress, grief, or ongoing health and caregiving challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. This collaborative process can include mixing approaches so practical tools and values-based work support each other.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, skill practice, and people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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