About Brenda
Brenda Drake is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with people facing depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and life transitions. Brenda creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming and find clearer steps forward.
Brenda uses straightforward methods that focus on practical change. She draws on client-centered work to follow each person's pace and priorities.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to uncover unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Her approach includes skills from dialectical behavior therapy when strong emotions make daily life hard. For relationship concerns she incorporates elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and problem solving.
Solution-focused tools are used to set small, achievable goals and track progress. Brenda pays attention to how life context affects mental health, including grief, parenting stress, chronic illness, and issues tied to identity. She supports people dealing with addiction, bipolar symptoms, anger, and attachment wounds.
Her work also addresses practical concerns such as caregiver strain, blended family challenges, and coping after separation. Clients can expect direct conversation, skill-building exercises, and homework that fits real life. Brenda blends active listening with clear suggestions so people leave sessions with one or two concrete steps.
Her practice is based in Mississippi and sessions are offered in English.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Brenda commonly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Client-centered work focuses on listening and following each person's lead so sessions reflect what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors, offering practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills when feelings feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Brenda works with each person to identify goals and preferences, then adapts methods to fit those needs. She reviews progress and shifts strategies when something is not helping, so treatment stays focused and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging can support short check-ins, skill reminders, or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use methods that match how someone prefers to communicate.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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