About Brandi
Brandi Ellis is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and related concerns. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel doable. Brandi values each person's strengths and works with clients to build on what already helps them.
With 12 years of clinical experience, she brings steady, practical support to sessions. Her work often includes tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and skills-based therapies to manage symptoms and emotional reactions.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to improve connection and trust in relationships. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and small, manageable changes. Brandi uses a client-centered stance that listens first and then offers options tailored to the person's needs.
She helps people practice new responses, notice unhelpful patterns, and try different ways of coping. Her background is in California, and she holds the LMFT credential, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Brandi has worked with people dealing with trauma, grief, addiction concerns, parenting stress, ADHD, and life transitions among other issues.
She combines practical skills with attention to personal values and relationships. People who prefer straightforward conversation and step-by-step strategies may find her style helpful. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability through the site's Start Therapy process.
Online approaches that match your needs
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It offers practical techniques for symptoms like anxiety, low mood, and sleep disruption.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early bonds shape current connections. It can help people improve trust, communication, and emotional safety in close relationships.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a short break during a workday. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or a way to stay connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using approaches that target anxiety, relationships, and day-to-day coping.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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