About Brandi
Brandi S Thomas-Scott is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Louisiana. She brings eight years of clinical experience and focuses on making therapy practical and understandable. She speaks English and works with children ages 5 to 17 years, adults, and couples.
Brandi aims to meet people where they are and treat them with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Her work often addresses stress and anxiety, parenting concerns, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and depression.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing grief, self-esteem challenges, career transitions, and the effects of ADHD. Additional focuses include attachment issues, communication problems, caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, body image, and coping after disasters. Brandi uses a mix of approaches depending on each person’s needs.
She draws on client-centered methods to create a warm, respectful space. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns of thought and behavior. Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are included when emotion regulation or stress tolerance is needed.
In sessions she aims to tailor discussions and plans to each person’s situation. That can mean short-term skills coaching or longer work on relationships and trauma. She encourages small, achievable steps so progress feels manageable.
Brandi views the first step to starting therapy as an act of courage. She asks questions, listens closely, and collaborates on goals so each person has a clear path forward.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Brandi uses client-centered therapy to build a trusting, respectful working relationship. This approach focuses on listening, validating a person’s experience, and shaping goals together so work feels collaborative and relevant.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings. CBT is practical and problem-focused and often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching specific skills and exercises to change unhelpful patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Brandi will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods to fit each person. That means trying a few techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together so sessions match real needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which let people choose what works best for them. Video is good for longer talk therapy and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text are useful for brief coaching, frequent check-ins, and when writing feels more comfortable. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit into school, work, or busy home schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English