About Brenda
Brenda Amundson is a licensed mental health counselor with 33 years of experience. She helps people facing stress and anxiety, depression, grief, and struggles with addiction. She also assists with relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, and career changes.
Brenda aims to make sessions feel open and nonjudgmental. She offers a calm presence and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Conversations focus on immediate concerns and practical next steps that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Her background includes long clinical experience in Massachusetts and work with people coping with first responder issues, HIV/AIDS, hoarding, and end-of-life and hospice concerns. That experience shapes how she responds to crises and prolonged stressors. In sessions she encourages honest talk about feelings and behavior.
She helps people name patterns and try manageable changes. The approach is steady and pragmatic, focused on what a person wants to change now. Brenda supports people through life transitions and complex problems like bipolar mood swings or intimacy-related issues.
She recognizes how parenting strain, career shifts, and loss can overlap and affect daily functioning. Her goal is to help each person find clearer choices and more effective coping. She offers sessions in English and works with clients in Massachusetts as well as international clients.
Taking the first step can feel difficult, and she aims to make beginning therapy straightforward and supportive.
Approaches that guide online care
Brenda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real problems and clear changes. One common approach helps people track thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and manage mood swings; it teaches simple skills to test unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. Another approach centers on supportive listening and problem solving for grief, relationship strain, and life transitions; it helps people organize feelings and plan next steps that fit their daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals and circumstances. Together they review what works, adjust the plan, and try new techniques when needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video visits allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and texts offer quick check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity during busy or changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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