About Brennan
Brennan Fitzgerald is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) practicing in California with 11 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, career concerns, coaching, and ADHD. Brennan aims to make it easier for people to take the first steps toward change.
She creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Brennan uses straightforward conversation and practical tools in sessions. She listens first, then helps people find small, doable steps that fit their daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include thinking exercises, mindfulness practices, and goal-focused coaching to handle work pressure and life transitions. Her approach is collaborative. Clients set the priorities and she offers methods from cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to support those goals.
The focus is on building coping skills and clearer decision making rather than labels or fast fixes. Brennan commonly helps people managing anxiety and stress related to jobs, school, or relationship strain. She also supports people addressing past trauma and those navigating executive or professional challenges.
Young adult issues are a frequent area of focus. People can expect a nonjudgmental tone and practical planning in sessions. Brennan aims to empower clients so they can handle stressors more confidently.
She guides each person toward steps that feel achievable and relevant to their life.
How Brennan Uses Talk-Based and Skill-Focused Approaches Online
Brennan often draws from cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people try new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and stress. She also uses client-centered therapy, which centers sessions on the person's goals and experience and helps people feel heard and understood.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Brennan works together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time so the work stays practical and relevant to real life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins and flexibility between longer sessions. These options help people maintain consistency and make it easier to practice new skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Coaching
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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