About Brandy
Brandy Colson is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 11 years of experience to her practice. She focuses on practical strategies that help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and family-related concerns. Brandy uses clear, down-to-earth guidance so parents and adults can take small steps that add up to real change.
She blends approaches that teach coping skills and address painful memories. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented, often focusing on what feels most urgent in a person's life.
How Brandy works
Brandy helps people identify strengths and build concrete plans for everyday challenges like parenting, work stress, and relationship strain. Her background includes work across issues such as grief, anger, self-esteem, career change, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing addiction, domestic violence fallout, adoption and foster care concerns, and end-of-life issues.
Brandy pays attention to how past losses and abandonment can shape current behavior and choices. Brandy practices in Florida and holds both LCSW and CSW credentials. She draws on methods from cognitive behavioral therapy, solution-focused therapy, and trauma-focused therapy to tailor sessions.
The focus is on simple tools and steady progress rather than complicated jargon. Her approach is collaborative: she helps people set realistic goals and measures small wins along the way. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelming feelings and increase day-to-day coping.
Brandy encourages a practical path forward that fits each person’s life and values.
Brandy lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Brandy works with
The areas below are the ones Brandy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Trauma-focused therapy helps people process painful memories and reduce the hold those memories have on daily life. It focuses on understanding reactions to trauma and building coping skills to manage strong emotions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and build different behaviors for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Solution-focused therapy aims for small, visible changes fast. Sessions center on goals, existing strengths, and steps that can be tried between meetings to see what helps most.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's goals, needs, and preferences. That process includes regular check-ins to see what is working and adjusting the plan when needed.
Online sessions using video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support brief updates, coaching-style guidance, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can match real-world schedules and practical needs.
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