About Brian
Brian Kees is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on practical ways to reduce anxiety and stress. He helps people who are dealing with depression, addictions, relationship strain, grief, and anger. He also supports those facing issues around identity, intimacy, and life purpose.
He uses clear, goal-focused methods so conversations lead to steps you can try between sessions. Sessions often involve learning tools to manage strong emotions, changing unhelpful thinking, and practicing different ways of communicating.
Background and approach
He draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches and skills-based therapies. Brian has eight years of experience working with adults through life transitions and moments of feeling stuck. He pays attention to how work, isolation, and impulsive choices can make everyday problems worse.
He offers space to talk through shame, guilt, and the fallout of addiction without judgment. His background includes work with people who identify as LGBT and men’s issues, and with concerns linked to trauma, bipolar mood patterns, and co-occurring conditions. He also addresses less common topics such as BDSM and alternative sex culture when they affect relationships or emotional well-being.
In sessions he aims to be direct and collaborative. He helps set small, concrete goals and adjusts plans as needs change. For practical next steps he guides people toward coping skills, communication strategies, and ways to reconnect with meaning and purpose.
Therapeutic approaches compatible with online care
Brian frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical techniques you can use between sessions. He also integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, which teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness for managing strong feelings and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting plans together as needs evolve.
Online formats make that collaborative process flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, and reminders about skills between meetings. These options help people access therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping sessions focused on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Oregon, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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