About Brenda
Brenda Broadnax is an LPC - licensed professional counselor in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strains, family challenges, and trauma. She offers calm, straightforward support and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Brenda draws on more than two decades of clinical work.
She began in therapeutic day treatment in public schools, supporting students with emotional and behavioral needs. She later worked in independent practice and county services, gaining experience with a wide range of concerns and diagnoses.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions aim to be respectful and nonjudgmental. She encourages clients to build on strengths they already have and to try small, manageable changes between meetings.
Brenda uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness, acceptance strategies, and attachment-focused ideas. She also uses client-centered and skills-based methods such as dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and communication tools.
Her background includes work with people affected by abuse, neglect, trauma, and complex diagnoses. That experience informs how she helps adults wrap treatment around real-life problems like parenting, caregiving stress, and rebuilding after relationship or safety disruptions.
How Brenda Uses Evidence-Informed Approaches Online
Brenda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress by breaking problems into concrete steps and practicing alternatives.She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action even when uncomfortable feelings appear. ACT can help people tolerate distress while moving toward meaningful goals.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust methods based on what helps. This collaboration aims to match skills and strategies to each person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and teaching skills, phone calls can fit a busy schedule or lower bandwidth, and chat or text can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These options make it easier to keep consistent appointments and apply new skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Texas
- Languages
- English
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