About Briana
Briana Dow is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in New York with four years of clinical experience. She works with people who are stressed, anxious, or navigating big life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, and she aims to make early sessions feel understandable and manageable.
Briana focuses on common concerns like relationship strain, family conflict, low self-esteem, and mood struggles such as depression and bipolar challenges.
How Briana works
She also helps with addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and intimacy-related issues. Practical problems like eating or sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, anger, and ADHD are part of her regular work. Her approach is collaborative.
She listens first, then helps set clear goals and steps. Sessions are adapted to what each person needs and prefers, whether that means skill-building, problem-solving, or talking through painful memories. Additional areas Briana addresses include communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, hoarding, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, self-love, and social anxiety or phobia.
She frames progress as small, steady changes rather than sudden fixes. Briana encourages people to reach out when things feel overwhelming. She supports practical next steps like improving daily routines, building better communication, and finding ways to cope with stress and loss.
Her aim is to help people move toward more stable, satisfying daily life.
What Briana works with
The areas below are the ones Briana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques can be adapted for online work in ways that feel practical and focused. One common style involves skill-building and coping strategies that teach concrete tools for stress, anxiety, and mood regulation; these tools are practiced in sessions and used between appointments. Another useful approach centers on improving communication and relationship habits by identifying patterns and rehearsing new ways of speaking and listening during sessions.Finding the right method is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to identify which techniques fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Together they will try approaches, review what helps, and adjust the plan over time so sessions match what’s actually working.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when they want it. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to keep in touch between appointments or to fit support into a busy day. These options give flexibility for scheduling and make it simpler to maintain continuity of care with licensed professionals.
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A practical next step
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