About Brandais
Brandais Gary helps people facing LGBT concerns, low self-esteem, career challenges, depression, and eating-related issues. She is a licensed professional counselor who uses a direct and warm approach to make hard conversations easier. Brandais keeps sessions practical and focused on what matters to each person.
She works with clear goals and steady encouragement. Brandais has ten years of experience as a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits.
How Brandais works
She also uses dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Solution-focused work helps people spot strengths and build steps they can try between sessions. Her background includes work with multicultural concerns, attachment issues, and gender dysphoria.
She often addresses family of origin problems, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness. Eating and body image concerns, panic symptoms, and avoidant personality patterns are also among her focus areas. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
Brandais aims to create a calm, judgement-free setting where clients can try new coping tools. She balances skill teaching with practical problem solving so people leave with concrete strategies. People who prefer flexible scheduling and a straightforward style may find her approach helpful.
She offers several session formats to fit different needs and schedules. Brandais works only with clients who live in Pennsylvania.
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What Brandais works with
The areas below are the ones Brandais selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online care
Brandais commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change small behaviors that get in the way of feeling better. CBT is practical and often involves homework between sessions to practice new skills. Dialectical behavior therapy focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness; it can help when feelings feel overwhelming or when relationships are a struggle.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Brandais will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then suggest starting points. She adjusts methods over time based on what helps and what feels comfortable for the client.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions work well when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or lower-bandwidth contact. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins during the day, or a way to practice skills between sessions.
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