About Brenda
Brenda Blake is an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 25 years of experience. She offers calm, direct support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, or big life changes. Brenda uses everyday language and practical steps to help people feel less overwhelmed.
Brenda focuses on problems such as addictions, bipolar challenges, sleep and eating struggles, and panic attacks. She also helps with relationship stresses, intimacy concerns, communication problems, and issues around self-esteem and body image.
How Brenda works
Her work includes support for people in the LGBT community and those dealing with compassion fatigue and ADHD. Her counseling style is warm and interactive. Sessions are focused on clear goals and tailored approaches instead of one-size-fits-all fixes.
Brenda mixes techniques that help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with ways to connect meaning and purpose to daily life. Across sessions she emphasizes practical tools you can use between meetings. That can mean short behavior changes, coping plans for anxious moments, or new ways to talk about needs and boundaries.
She also coaches clients who want more structure around career or life purpose goals. Brenda invites people to take the first step toward change when they are ready. She meets by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
Her approach aims to make progress feel manageable and steady.
What Brenda works with
The areas below are the ones Brenda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches and online options that fit everyday life
Brenda uses evidence-based techniques focused on the thoughts and actions that affect mood and behavior. Cognitive-behavioral methods help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teach concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and change behaviors that fuel depression. Brief therapy models aim to set clear goals and make measurable progress in fewer sessions, which can help when people want quicker strategies for a specific problem.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past attempts, and what feels most helpful, then agree on steps to try. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust methods as needs and preferences become clearer.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video sessions work well for deeper conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coping prompts, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
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