About Brenda
Brenda Sallee is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship struggles. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping clients find what works for them.
She draws on a mix of therapy methods to match each person's needs. Sessions often include talking through current problems, learning skills to reduce intense emotions, and trying new ways to handle difficult interactions.
Background and approach
She also supports people working through eating concerns, addiction, and mood challenges. Brenda uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow the client's lead and build on strengths. She brings Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when strong emotions and relationship patterns need clearer tools. Her background includes ten years of clinical experience and a Florida LMFT credential. That experience informs practical strategies for coping with life changes, communication problems, and family-of-origin issues.
Brenda keeps goals clear and measurable so progress is visible. Sessions may address concerns like abandonment fears, codependency, dissociation, and caregiver stress. She also works with people facing domestic violence, divorce, or blended family challenges.
Her approach aims to help people build resilience, improve communication, and recover a sense of control.
How Brenda's Approaches Work Online
The work often combines Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Client-Centered Therapy means the therapist follows the client's lead, listens deeply, and helps people identify their own goals. It is useful for building trust and making space to talk about what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on recognizing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Brenda will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean starting with skill-building exercises, then shifting to deeper narrative work if needed.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is often used for fuller conversation and teaching skills, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or short coaching moments. These options help people fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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