About Brandy
Brandy Jastrow is a licensed clinical social worker in Wisconsin with eight years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and issues with self-esteem and motivation. She aims to make the first steps toward change feel achievable and supported.
She treats conversations as a team effort and adapts sessions to each person's situation. Sessions focus on practical skills and clearer thinking so daily life becomes easier to handle.
How Brandy works
Brandy uses straightforward tools to manage mood, tackle unhelpful thoughts, and build better habits. Her background includes work with addiction, grief, intimacy concerns, and challenges around parenting and career. She also addresses complex issues such as ADHD, attachment and abandonment, body image, and caregiver stress.
Her approach is flexible to fit whoever is sitting in front of her. Brandy draws from several therapy styles including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, dialectical behavior ideas, and motivational interviewing. She chooses what fits each person's goals rather than following one fixed plan.
Conversations are practical and focused on what a person wants to change. People who prefer clear steps, calm listening, and a collaborative relationship often find her helpful. She works in English and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
The overall aim is to help people gain tools, feel steadier, and move toward a life that feels more manageable.
Brandy lists 8 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Doing evidence-based work online with flexible formats
Brandy uses client-centered methods to build a respectful, empathetic relationship and focus on what matters most to the person. This approach helps people feel heard and directs the work toward their priorities.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thinking patterns and practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and lift mood. CBT is useful for depression, anxiety, sleep problems, and many everyday struggles. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques offer skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication, which can help with anger, relationship problems, and intense emotions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will listen to a person's goals and try different strategies to see what fits best. That collaborative process lets the plan change as needs shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is helpful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, chat can be useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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