About Brianna
Brianna Yates is a licensed clinical social worker who brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to therapy. She draws on three years as an LCSW and prior medical social work experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and big life changes. Brianna aims to listen, validate, and work with each person to set realistic goals and move forward.
Before entering independent practice she spent time as a medical social worker supporting people with chronic illness and new health concerns.
How Brianna works
She also provided services at a domestic violence agency where she offered therapy and education to adults and children. Those roles shaped how she approaches safety, coping, and practical problem solving. Sessions are tailored to what each person needs in the moment.
She draws mainly on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, emotionally-focused techniques, and motivational interviewing to help with thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Expect a collaboration that focuses on skills you can use between sessions. Brianna can help with a wide range of concerns including relationships, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting stresses, sleep problems, attention challenges, career questions, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses aging and caregiver issues, chronic pain and illness, body image, and codependency among other focused areas. Her work style is straightforward and supportive. Outside of work she enjoys testing new recipes, taking walks, and binge watching shows.
Brianna practices in Illinois and meets with people using online formats and phone sessions.
Brianna lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Brianna works with
The areas below are the ones Brianna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. It emphasizes collaboration, helping people set goals and decide the pace and focus of therapy, which works well in video or phone sessions when people want a conversational space to talk through concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical tools to manage anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and stress. CBT sessions often include structured exercises and between-session practice, which adapt easily to video, chat, or text formats.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Short guided practices and check-ins can be done during a video call or through brief text-based coaching between appointments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress is made and new priorities appear.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier on the go, and live chat or text messaging make brief check-ins and written practice simple to fit into a busy day. These formats help people access ongoing support without added travel time and can make it easier to keep momentum between sessions.
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