About Kerry
Kerry Branum is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. He brings 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. Kerry describes his work as practical and down-to-earth.
He aims to help clients build skills they can use between sessions. Kerry uses a mix of talk therapy, skills training, and coaching-style goal work. He listens for the patterns that keep problems cycling and helps people try different responses.
Background and approach
Sessions often include concrete tools for handling strong emotions, improving communication, and managing daily stressors. He draws on several well-known therapeutic approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking and acceptance-based techniques to reduce struggle with difficult feelings. Attachment-informed ideas help him notice how close relationships shape behavior and emotion.
Kerry also uses person-centered methods to make space for each client's values and goals. Clients can expect a collaborative relationship where goals are set together. Kerry helps people break large problems into small steps and track progress over time.
He also offers coaching and teaching to reinforce new habits outside therapy. Kerry works with adults on a wide range of concerns including grief, trauma, parenting stress, addiction issues, ADHD, career questions, and caregiving strain. He practices in Missouri and provides services in English.
His counseling style is straightforward, respectful, and focused on practical change.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful struggles with thoughts and feelings and then commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and problems tied to avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions, and it can help with intimacy issues and communication patterns.Choosing the best approach is part of the work. Kerry will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online therapy with Kerry uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video lets for face-to-face conversation and full sessions. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for quick reflections, coaching-style support, or ongoing skill practice between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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