About Brenda
Brenda Rogers is a licensed clinician who blends practical strategies with a warm, person-focused style. She uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people cope with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, anger, career concerns, and depression. Brenda holds an IL LCPC and brings ten years of clinical experience to sessions.
Her work starts with listening. She helps people name what feels off and maps small, manageable steps to change.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clearer thinking, better communication, and tools to manage strong emotions. People leave with concrete skills they can try between visits. Brenda pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns.
She supports exploration of abandonment, attachment issues, and relationship wounds without rushing the process. That slower, steady work aims to reduce shame and build self-worth. Practical problem-solving is part of her approach.
She addresses issues like impulsivity, jealousy, and control struggles with goal-directed techniques from CBT. For concerns around body image, isolation, or workplace stress she combines skills practice with reflective conversation. Her practice also attends to neurodiversity and intellectual differences, offering adapted strategies for people with autism or intellectual disability.
Brenda frames therapy as a collaborative process where a person's values and goals guide each session.
Practical approaches delivered online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. It emphasizes empathy and the person's own goals, which can help when dealing with low self-esteem, grief, or feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches specific skills to manage anxiety, anger, and depression. It is action-oriented and often includes homework between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying practical CBT tools when quick symptom relief is needed, or using client-centered conversation when processing past hurts is the priority.
Online sessions make these methods more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and role-play. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, moment-to-moment support, or people who prefer written communication. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English