About Brian
Brian Sobieski is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 25 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and life transitions. He works with individuals facing relationship and family challenges, career questions, grief, trauma, and concerns like ADHD and panic attacks.
Brian tends to use a brief, solution-oriented approach that aims to build practical coping skills. He combines cognitive behavioral ideas with client-centered conversations to identify small, useful steps people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear goals and skills that make daily life easier. Clients can expect a collaborative style where the therapist listens first and then offers options tailored to personal needs. Mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing are added when helpful to support focus, reduce reactivity, and boost readiness for change.
The work is down-to-earth and goal-focused rather than purely academic. Brian brings a long-standing clinical background and experience across a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, blended family dynamics, and compassion fatigue. He also addresses career and life-purpose questions alongside mood and anxiety symptoms.
Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled to fit varied routines. He accepts international clients and uses multiple online formats to reach people who need flexibility.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship so clients feel heard and understood. It helps people clarify their goals and make decisions that fit their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to reduce anxiety, panic, or depressive patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brian will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily demands. That might mean using CBT skills for anxiety, adding mindfulness for stress regulation, or keeping sessions solution-focused to reach a specific life change more quickly.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports quick reflections between meetings. These options provide flexibility so people can keep progress moving even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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