About Brenda
Brenda Roberts Moosa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 23 years of experience helping people handle stress and anxiety. She brings decades of practice to conversations about grief, relationship strain, parenting concerns, and major life changes. Brenda aims to meet people with respect and a direct, compassionate style that still challenges them to grow.
Her approach centers on listening first. She uses client-centered conversation to understand what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Sessions often include practical tools from solution-focused work and skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel overwhelming. Brenda also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat across relationships and life choices. Mindfulness tools are included to help with grounding and managing intense feelings in the moment.
She shapes each plan around the individual, not a one-size-fits-all protocol. Over her career she has worked with a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety, including depression, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, identity questions related to LGBT issues, and family-of-origin problems. She has experience supporting people through adoption and foster care matters, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and divorce and separation topics.
Brenda works with people in Virginia and conducts sessions in English. She emphasizes collaborative, interactive sessions that aim to build skills, lift day-to-day functioning, and help clients move toward goals they choose for themselves.
How Brenda brings approaches online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and making sessions revolve around a person's goals and values. Online sessions use that same foundation to shape conversations and priorities in a way that fits daily life.Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and reducing reactive behaviors. In virtual sessions Brenda can teach and practice those skills, offer coaching in the moment, and help clients integrate the techniques between meetings.
Mindfulness therapy includes simple grounding and awareness exercises that reduce rumination and increase present-moment focus. These exercises translate well to video or phone sessions and can be assigned as short practices through messaging between meetings.
Brenda treats finding the right approach as a shared process. She will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy with her uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone calls need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, skills practice, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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