About April
Dr. April Brewer is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, improve relationships, and navigate life changes. She offers a calm, practical style and aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life.
She brings 14 years of experience across health and justice settings. Her background includes roles as a medic in the U.S. Air Force, work with the U.S.
Navy as a psychometrician, DUI and drug court counseling, and clinical positions at a Veterans Affairs medical center.
Background and approach
She has also coordinated behavioral health services within court systems and worked as a Military and Family Life Counselor on Department of Defense installations. Brewer holds a Doctor of Behavioral Health from Arizona State University and two master’s degrees in clinical counseling and human services from Bellevue University.
She applies what she learned about integrated behavioral care to help people manage chronic health concerns alongside emotional and behavioral challenges. Her counseling draws from several approaches, including client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, emotionally-focused methods, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Sessions tend to focus on practical skills, clearer communication, and small steps toward goals.
People come to her for many concerns such as parenting strain, intimacy and relationship problems, grief, trauma, mood issues, addiction-related struggles, sleep problems, and stress. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to your experience. The therapist offers empathetic support and helps you set goals based on what matters most to you, which is useful for relationship and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and mood concerns by breaking issues into manageable steps and practicing new habits.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust the plan together as you learn what works best for you.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video lets you see facial cues and use screen-shared worksheets, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a faster check-in, and messaging can support brief updates or midweek reflections. These options make it easier to work on relationship, anxiety, or stress issues without rearranging your whole day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Georgia
- Languages
- English
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