About Brittany
Brittany Vaughn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of clinical work. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those coping with depression, trauma, parenting strain, and self-esteem struggles. Her manner is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping busy parents find ways to reduce symptoms that get in the way of daily life.
Brittany earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Southern Illinois University and completed a Master of Social Work in May 2014.
Background and approach
Early in her career she provided therapy to adolescents with severe trauma in a residential setting. She later worked in Williamson County schools offering therapeutic support to students with behavioral and emotional challenges. In outpatient settings she has helped children, adolescents, and adults with a wide range of concerns.
Her work includes supporting people dealing with relationship difficulties, career stress, ADHD, and grief after major life changes. She also addresses issues such as compassion fatigue, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and challenges related to adoption and foster care. Brittany draws on client-centered methods along with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices.
She uses these approaches to build practical skills for managing anxiety, change, and strong emotions. Sessions typically focus on clear goals and small, achievable steps. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
She helps people identify what matters to them, break problems into manageable pieces, and practice new ways of coping. Brittany works from Illinois and conducts sessions in English.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Brittany uses client-centered methods that focus on what matters to the client. That approach means sessions begin by listening and setting goals that feel realistic for the person's life. It helps when someone needs support with anxiety, parenting challenges, or finding direction after a life change.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into smaller parts. Clients learn to notice unhelpful thoughts and try concrete experiments to change behaviors. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it teaches skills that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Brittany will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress and needs change.
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 lets people work face to face, phone can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides a quicker check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it possible to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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