About Brenda
Brenda Yanofsky is a Michigan psychologist with 35 years of professional experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress along with mood and relationship concerns. She aims to listen first and build a plan that matches each person's needs.
Brenda uses straightforward, talk-based work to help people manage worry, low mood, grief, and changes in life. She draws on several therapeutic approaches to tailor sessions for things like sleep problems, addiction, or career stress.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a practical pace with tools you can try between visits. Her background includes long clinical experience as a MI Psychologist. That experience informs how she helps people facing trauma, chronic illness, caregiver strain, or life transition.
She also addresses intimacy issues, body image, and coping after loss. In session she mixes reflection with concrete skill building. That can mean learning mindful ways to calm anxiety, spotting patterns that keep problems going, and trying new communication techniques.
The emphasis is on skills that fit day-to-day life. Brenda offers several remote formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to fit their calendars.
Her goal is to work collaboratively toward clearer thinking and steadier days.
How her approaches work online
Brenda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client‑Centered Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Client‑Centered Therapy centers the conversation on your experience, helping you feel heard while you make choices about change.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will talk with you about symptoms, goals, and what feels useful. Together you decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress unfolds so the work stays relevant to your life.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text‑based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and teaching exercises. Phone can fit a shorter check‑in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let you send updates and get brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, or mobility needs while keeping the focus on practical steps forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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