About Vanessa
Vanessa Britton is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing in Pennsylvania. She brings 14 years of counseling experience across settings like prisons, drug and alcohol centers, in-home therapy, public schools, and community offices. Vanessa focuses on practical help for stress and anxiety and other concerns that get in the way of daily life.
She uses straightforward conversation and concrete tools to help people manage symptoms and build routines that work.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to teach coping skills, change unhelpful thinking, and create small, doable steps toward goals. Vanessa emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in her approach. Her background includes work with depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting concerns, self-esteem issues, and relationship difficulties.
She also has experience with autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family issues, body image, obsessive-compulsive concerns, and first responder and veteran issues. Therapeutic methods she commonly draws on include cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, motivational interviewing, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused work. These approaches are used to address things like mood disorders, coping with life changes, and substance use challenges.
Sessions are offered in English and are provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Vanessa encourages people to reach out and begin with a short matching questionnaire to find the best way to start therapy.
How Vanessa Uses Practical Therapies Online
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying and changing thought patterns that lead to unhelpful feelings and behaviors. It helps with anxiety, depression, obsessions, compulsions, and daily stress by teaching clear skills and exercises to practice between sessions.DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, centers on emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. It can be helpful for strong mood swings, overwhelming emotions, and relationship stress by offering concrete strategies to manage intense moments.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It’s useful for addictions, ambivalence about treatment, and making steps toward goals by building motivation and a plan that fits the person’s values.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they adjust methods so sessions feel useful and focused on realistic progress.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people talk face-to-face when schedules allow. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or reduce bandwidth needs. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, quick skill reminders, and ongoing reflection between full sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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