About Brandy
Brandy Peterson is a Licensed Professional Counselor who draws on 13 years of clinical experience. She uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma. Brandy emphasizes respect, dignity, and a nonjudgmental attitude in sessions.
She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with person-centered ideas to keep therapy focused and relatable. Sessions often include skill practice, thought work, and problem-solving tasks that people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Brandy also incorporates mindfulness techniques to help with emotion regulation and grounding. Her background includes a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Liberty University.
Over more than a decade she has worked in multiple roles and settings, gaining experience with a broad range of concerns such as anger, grief, parenting stress, career transitions, and ADHD-related challenges. Brandy has focused training in trauma and integrative medicine, which she brings into treatment when it fits the client’s needs.
That means she will consider the whole picture and offer tools for both immediate coping and longer-term recovery. She aims to collaborate with people, setting clear goals and teaching strategies to meet them. People who want a practical, compassionate counselor often find her approach direct and supportive.
She works from Virginia and conducts sessions in English. Her style is geared toward helping people build skills and make steady progress.
Approaches that guide online work and skill building
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing practical changes in behavior. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and managing strong emotions by teaching concrete skills to change how someone reacts to stress.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It can help people who struggle with intense feelings, relationship conflict, or impulsive reactions by offering step-by-step coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they adjust methods and tools so the work fits the person’s life and priorities.
Online sessions provide flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited time. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face, while phone sessions can be a shorter check-in without video. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to touch base between sessions or to use therapy tools in the moment. These options let people choose what works best for their routine and comfort level.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English