About Brittany
Brittany Henderson is a licensed clinical social worker in West Virginia with 13 years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. She also supports people dealing with addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, anger, bipolar challenges, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she aims to make the first step feel manageable for a worried parent or individual.
How Brittany works
Brittany shapes conversations and plans around each person's needs. She listens first, then helps set clear goals. Sessions are practical and focused on skills you can use between meetings.
She avoids jargon and talks in everyday language. Her work draws on several evidence-informed approaches. Clients may use cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thought patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment ideas can help with values-based action when emotions feel overwhelming. Attachment-focused work looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and trust. Brittany also integrates client-centered and dialectical strategies to build acceptance and practical coping skills.
She supports people with complex concerns like chronic illness, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care issues, body image, and communication problems. The plan always reflects the person's pace and priorities. Sessions can include short-term skill building or longer work on deeper patterns.
Brittany emphasizes collaboration and respects each person's lived experience. She aims to help people find clearer choices and more manageable ways of moving forward.
Brittany lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Brittany works with
The areas below are the ones Brittany selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | West Virginia |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and changing thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. It is helpful for anxiety, mood concerns, and building practical coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and closeness; it can help with trust, communication, and intimacy-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond in the first sessions. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers different formats to fit life demands: video calls for in-depth conversations, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat for quicker check-ins, and text-based messaging for short updates or ongoing encouragement. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or medical needs and let people use the format that helps them stay consistent with treatment.
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