About Bree
Bree May is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience supporting people through life’s stresses and transitions. She practices from Washington and offers sessions in English. Bree focuses on practical, outcome-oriented work while honoring each person’s unique story and values.
Her style blends client-centered listening with interpersonal and behavioral techniques. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, panic attacks, and mood concerns with clear, step-by-step strategies. Bree also addresses anger, self-esteem, and the strain that comes with caregiving or major life changes.
How Bree works
Many people come to Bree for help with relationship struggles such as attachment wounds, communication problems, abandonment, and separation. She offers guidance around feelings of guilt, shame, isolation, and the confusion that can accompany midlife shifts or questions about life purpose. Bree describes parts of her work as solution-focused and behavioral when concrete change is the goal.
She also brings a more expansive, spiritually oriented perspective when people want to explore deeper meaning and values. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs at the time. She aims to make the therapy space open and nonjudgmental so thoughts and feelings can be said aloud.
Bree encourages small, manageable steps toward greater fulfillment and clearer daily functioning. Starting therapy is a brave move, and she frames herself as an ally in that process.
What Bree works with
The areas below are the ones Bree selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Bree uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear goals and practical changes. One common approach is behavioral work, which breaks larger problems into small, actionable steps to reduce anxiety, manage panic attacks, and change disruptive habits. Another is interpersonal, relationship-focused work that looks at how patterns in communication and attachment shape current struggles and emotional responses.Bree also blends solution-focused methods that target immediate problems and build skills for faster relief. Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust techniques as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face while live chat or texting can be useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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