About Brenda
Dr. Brenda Kemp is a Licensed Professional Counselor working in Georgia with 16 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for everyday problems like stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and intimacy concerns.
Her style is warm and straightforward and she aims to make therapy feel manageable for people under pressure. She uses a mix of approaches that fit each person’s needs. That can mean looking at unhelpful thought patterns, tracing how past relationships shape current reactions, or helping clients name values and take small steps toward them.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to match where someone is in their life and what they can handle right now. Dr. Kemp works with issues that include grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, anger, low self-esteem, and career strain.
She also supports people navigating family problems, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiving stress, aging and end-of-life matters, and challenges tied to intimate relationships. These areas often overlap, and she helps people sort priorities and make clear plans. Her work is collaborative and practical.
She listens first, then helps set short-term goals and tools clients can use between sessions. Techniques may include talking through difficult memories, practicing new communication habits, or testing small behavior changes. People who seek her out tend to want clear steps and honest feedback rather than long, abstract discussions.
Dr. Kemp aims to help clients move from coping to choosing, one achievable change at a time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Dr. Kemp often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help online clients. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking small actions that align with those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical ways to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Then she tailors techniques so they make sense for your life and the pace you want to move at, checking in as progress continues.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you work face-to-face when that feels helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for those who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer quick check-ins, brief processing, and tools that can fit into a busy day. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into work or caregiving schedules while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English