About Briana
Briana Barbour is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction recovery, trauma, depression, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that can be used between sessions. Briana aims to make the first conversation feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and Motivational Interviewing to support change when motivation feels stuck.
Background and approach
In sessions she will help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small experiments to shift them. The work often includes setting concrete goals, practicing new coping skills, and reviewing what helps in day-to-day life. Over five years of clinical experience inform her choices about tools and pacing.
Briana adapts strategies to what each person needs rather than following a script. She treats addiction concerns alongside mood and anxiety symptoms because these issues often interact. Sessions can explore relationship wounds, attachment concerns, body image struggles, guilt and shame, and stress tied to work or caregiving.
She also addresses challenges that affect first responders and veterans, and supports people facing isolation, panic, or post-traumatic stress. Briana holds a Florida LMHC credential and works with people in English. Her approach emphasizes collaboration, small steps, and practical skills so that progress can feel real and doable.
Approaches you can use online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people connect thoughts, feelings, and actions. It focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new ways of responding to anxiety, panic, or low mood. Motivational Interviewing centers on a person's own reasons for change and uses respectful conversation to build motivation for steps like reducing substance use or making life adjustments.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try strategies together to see what fits. If one method is not helping, she will adjust the plan so work stays relevant to your needs and pace.
Online sessions can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different situations. Video is useful for in-depth work and practicing skills with real-time feedback. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or on-camera time is limited. Live chat and text messaging make short check-ins and step-by-step coaching possible between full sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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