About Brandais
Brandais Gary is a licensed professional counselor who helps people navigate depression, self-esteem struggles, career challenges, and LGBT concerns. She works with issues around eating, coping with life changes, and panic symptoms. Her approach is straightforward and supportive.
She aims to make first steps feel manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed. Gary keeps sessions warm and down-to-earth. She encourages honest talk and practical planning.
Conversations focus on clear goals and small, measurable steps toward change.
Background and approach
She also helps people sort through identity questions and body image concerns without judgment. Her practice emphasizes tools that can be used between sessions. That can mean learning coping skills for anxiety, building a routine to support mood, or practicing strategies to handle workplace stress.
She uses methods that help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors to see what works. With about ten years as a counselor in Pennsylvania, she brings experience across a range of concerns. That background includes working with multicultural issues, attachment-related struggles, and caregiver stress.
She also addresses eating and food-related problems and emotional patterns like guilt, shame, and emptiness. Sessions are offered in English and are available through several online formats. People who choose her work with a therapist who favors collaboration and honest feedback.
The focus is on clear steps, practical skills, and steady progress.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Brandais uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking that contribute to low mood or anxiety, then try different actions to change how they feel. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer interpersonal communication. Solution-Focused Therapy is applied to set small, specific goals and track progress toward those changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together the therapist and client choose techniques and adjust them over time so the plan fits the person's life and aims.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier and to match different needs. Video calls work well for longer therapy conversations, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, brief skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options give flexibility for people balancing work, school, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English