About Brenda
Brenda Oliver is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood changes, and relationship concerns. She guides clients through anger and emotional control, self-esteem and motivation issues, grief, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Brenda works with people facing career strain, parenting challenges, addictions, and LGBTQ-related concerns.
She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiving burden, and major life changes. Brenda takes a respectful and compassionate approach in sessions.
Background and approach
She listens first and tailors conversations to each person’s needs. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings. The aim is to improve daily functioning and overall quality of life.
Her practice uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy among others. Those approaches help with managing difficult feelings, shifting unhelpful thinking, and improving closeness and communication. Brenda adapts strategies to match what you prefer and what helps most.
She has worked in the field for over 28 years and holds a Louisiana LPC license. That background informs a steady, experienced presence in sessions. Brenda emphasizes real-world solutions over jargon and helps clients set achievable goals.
People meet with her by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire links you with a schedule that fits your availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice tough thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move you toward a meaningful life, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches clear tools to change them; it is often used for anxiety, mood issues, and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people tune into emotions and improve connection and communication, which can be useful for relationship or intimacy-related concerns.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals and try methods that match your needs and what feels comfortable. Over time, the plan can shift based on what works best for you.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you meet face to face when you want to see expressions and body language. Phone sessions can be lower-bandwidth and easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat or text conversations can work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing helps you organize thoughts. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life and to use approaches that suit your routine.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English