About Brenda
Brenda Drake is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. She is based in Mississippi and works with concerns around relationships, parenting, grief, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and LGBT matters. Her style is compassionate and direct, focused on practical steps that people can use day to day.
Brenda keeps sessions grounded and goal-focused. She listens first, then helps people pick small, clear actions to reduce overwhelm.
How Brenda works
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches and skills-based work to teach concrete ways to manage thoughts, emotions, and behavior. When relationship patterns are part of the problem, she draws on the Gottman Method to improve communication and conflict management. For ongoing emotional dysregulation or high-intensity feelings she uses strategies from dialectical behavior work to build tolerance and distress skills.
Solution-focused techniques help shape short-term plans when a quick reset is needed. Clients can expect a collaborative atmosphere where their experience directs the work. Brenda pays attention to attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges, codependency, and caregiving stress.
She also addresses body image, chronic illness, and the impact of major life changes. Her approach is practical and paced to the individual. Sessions aim to leave people with at least one usable tool by the end.
Brenda applies her MS LPC training and two decades of practice to help people move toward clearer choices and steadier day-to-day coping.
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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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Mississippi |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person’s goals guide each session; this helps people who want support sorting out feelings and making decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches specific skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that help when feelings feel overwhelming or when conflict is intense.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Brenda will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. From that conversation she helps choose one or two approaches to try and adjusts them as progress is made, so treatment stays practical and person-centered.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit different schedules and needs. Video works well when face-to-face interaction matters, phone can be easier if bandwidth is limited, live chat and text let people check in between sessions or use therapy without being on camera. These options help people access regular care, keep appointments during busy weeks, and use tools in ways that fit daily life.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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