About Brenda
Brenda Roberts Moosa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 23 years of clinical experience. She takes a respectful, warm, and direct approach when meeting people who are dealing with life stressors. Her style is interactive and focused on practical steps to improve daily life.
Brenda uses a client-centered stance that keeps the conversation grounded in each person's needs. She blends that with psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time.
How Brenda works
She also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused tools so sessions include both reflection and concrete strategies. People come for many reasons, including anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, parenting concerns, and challenges tied to identity such as LGBT issues. She also supports those facing major life changes, compassion fatigue, and difficulties with self-esteem.
In sessions Brenda aims to help people build coping skills, improve communication, and make clearer choices. She offers space to talk through family of origin concerns, adoption and foster care issues, blended family stress, and caregiving strain. Her work may include addressing abandonment, codependency, or commitment worries.
Brenda provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability.
Brenda lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
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
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Approaches to change in online therapy
Brenda uses client-centered work to focus on each person's priorities. This approach means sessions begin with what matters most to the client and the conversation is guided by their goals. It helps when someone needs a respectful space to be heard and to make personal choices about next steps.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy, often shortened to DBT, which emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. DBT-style tools can be useful for people coping with intense anxiety, mood swings, or reactive patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Brenda will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences, adapting methods as progress is made. The plan evolves through regular discussion so clients help shape what comes next.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper connection. Phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text sessions provide shorter check-ins or a way to reflect in writing between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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