About Brenda
Brenda Burrell is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She uses clear, direct conversation to help people manage stress and anxiety and to find better ways to cope with life changes. Her approach centers on listening first.
She creates a space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. From there she and the client plan simple, realistic steps to change how problems are handled day to day.
Background and approach
Brenda draws on cognitive behavioral tools to notice and shift unhelpful thinking. She also uses dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to help people calm their minds and notice patterns as they arise.
She has 18 years of experience in social work across multiple settings. That background includes work with people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar concerns, and struggles with self-esteem and anger. Brenda also supports those coping with compassion fatigue and veteran and armed forces issues.
Sessions can include talking through relationship and communication problems, addressing guilt and shame, and building self-love. Her style is collaborative and practical, aimed at helping people develop skills they can use between sessions. Brenda practices from Mississippi and conducts sessions in English.
Her credentials include a Master of Science and LCSW licensure, and she frames therapy as a step-by-step process toward manageable change.
Approaches and how online therapy can help
Brenda uses client-centered therapy to start. That means the first priority is understanding each person's experience and goals. Sessions focus on what matters to the client and move at a pace that feels manageable.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and to test new ways of behaving. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are used to build emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills when feelings feel overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Brenda works with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That allows adjustments as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is good for a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins and skill practice. These options let people fit sessions into busy days and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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