About Brenda
Brenda Drake is a licensed professional counselor who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She brings two decades of clinical experience and a calm, practical approach to sessions. Many people come to her for help with parenting strain, grief, addictions, ADHD, and self-esteem concerns.
Brenda works in a way that centers the person's own goals and strengths. She listens first, then collaborates on steps that feel doable.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on improving communication, managing intense emotions, and rebuilding routines after life changes. She combines structured tools with a warm, accepting style. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills help with emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings are intense. Brenda also uses client-centered and solution-focused methods to keep work practical and goal oriented. For relationship concerns she draws on principles from the Gottman Method to improve day-to-day interactions and repair patterns that cause conflict.
The approach is flexible and based on what the individual needs in the moment. Clients describe a mix of short-term problem solving and deeper work on long-standing patterns. Brenda supports people through transitions like divorce, blended family challenges, chronic illness, and caregiving stress.
She practices in Mississippi and conducts sessions in English.
How common approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what the person says, helping them name priorities and decide next steps. This approach supports people facing grief, identity questions, or low self-esteem by centering their experience.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and then tests practical changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and for building new routines after life changes.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and reducing self-destructive reactions. It can help with anger, intense mood swings, and coping during high-stress periods.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brenda will review needs, goals, and preferences together and adjust methods as therapy progresses. Treatment plans are collaborative and revisited over time so techniques match what is most helpful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives or limited travel options. Video calls enable a more personal face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can provide brief check-ins or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit help into a workday, manage caregiving responsibilities, or maintain continuity during transitions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English