About Raven
Raven Brown-McKinney is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW, LCSW) based in Texas. She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, and life changes, and helps people who feel stuck regain a clearer sense of direction. Her style is warm and collaborative, aimed at practical steps people can use right away.
Raven draws from approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values. Sessions emphasize doable skills rather than long explanations. With six years of recent clinical experience, Raven combines that time with broader social work background.
She has experience in crisis response, domestic violence settings, and coaching, which informs how she listens and plans next steps. That background guides a focus on safety, practical problem solving, and steady progress. In sessions clients can expect a calm, accepting presence and clear homework or experiments to practice between meetings.
Raven helps people set short-term goals and track steps toward them. She emphasizes communication skills, coping tools for panic and stress, and strategies for improving self-esteem. Raven offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy process.
Approach-based care you can access online
Raven commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based tools to help people notice thought patterns and test new behaviors. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying concrete changes in behavior to reduce worry and improve mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment noticing and simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and calm the body.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Raven will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they set practical goals and try short experiments to see what helps most, adjusting the plan as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video is useful for deeper discussion and visual cues, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for short updates, skill practice, and staying connected between longer appointments. These options let people access consistent care from different locations and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Alabama, Oregon, Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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