About Artrice
Artrice Brewer is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. She approaches therapy with respect for each person's story and strengths.
Many clients come looking for practical ways to feel steadier day to day. Brewer uses straightforward conversation to help people identify what matters most to them. She blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are offered when they fit a person's needs to build calm and self-awareness. Her background includes long-term work with people who have experienced trauma and loss. That experience informs a careful, paced approach when painful memories come up.
She helps people create safety and coping skills before tackling harder material. Sessions focus on short-term goals and clear steps. Typical work includes reducing panic and worry, improving communication, and managing mood swings.
She also supports people dealing with family strain, attachment issues, and life transitions such as divorce or midlife change. Brewer encourages collaboration in setting goals and tracking progress. She helps people practice new skills between sessions and refine what works.
The tone is practical, steady, and respectful of each person's pace and values.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's own goals and values. In online sessions that means space for people to speak about what matters most while the therapist reflects and helps clarify next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, uses practical exercises to change patterns of thinking and behavior. Online work can include thought records, behavioral experiments, and brief homework tasks people complete between sessions to reduce anxiety and negative thinking.
Mindfulness therapy teaches short attention and breathing practices to help with stress and overwhelming feelings. These exercises can be guided over video or audio and practiced during a text or phone check-in when a shorter contact is needed.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and daily routine. Plans are adjusted as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for longer sessions, phone helps when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging support brief updates or ongoing skill practice between meetings. This variety helps people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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