About Brandon
Brandon Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship worries, and low self-esteem. He works with adults who are trying to cope with depression, grief, life changes, or career strain. Brandon speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that fit everyday life.
He sees therapy as a partnership. Together clients set clear goals and check progress as they go. Some sessions focus on skill-building - such as coping tools for anxiety and anger - while others slow down to look at patterns and feelings that keep showing up.
Background and approach
Brandon blends a few straightforward approaches to match each person's needs. He draws on client-centered work to keep sessions grounded in the client's priorities. He uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help shift unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills when emotion regulation is a concern.
Across his six years of practice Brandon has supported people through attachment and abandonment issues, commitment concerns, caregiver stress, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. He also helps those facing questions of life purpose, midlife transitions, and issues tied to identity and LGBT concerns. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth.
Brandon aims to help people build confidence, stronger relationships, and clearer coping strategies. He works from Indiana and conducts sessions in English.
How Brandon’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Brandon commonly draws on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy online. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities, which helps shape each session around what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and then teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns.He also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills when strong emotions or relationship patterns are getting in the way. DBT skills include concrete tools for regulating emotion, improving communication, and handling distress in healthier ways. These approaches are used together to match the person's goals and the immediate concerns they bring to sessions.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Brandon works with clients to decide which tools to try first and adjusts as progress or new needs emerge. The aim is to make therapy useful from early on and to build strategies that carry into daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone calls can be quicker check-ins when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging fits shorter updates or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to work on anxiety, relationships, mood, and coping skills without rearranging a whole day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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