About Brent
Brent Ruebensam is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas with 15 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and trauma through straightforward, practical conversations. He aims to meet people where they are and tailor care to each person's needs.
Brent uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking patterns. He also uses client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on the individual's goals and values.
Background and approach
People who come to him often bring concerns such as addiction, grief, issues with intimacy, and self-esteem struggles. He also works with challenges like ADHD, relationship problems, and anger. Brent pays attention to how family history and attachment patterns shape current difficulties.
His style is respectful and direct. He aims to make sessions practical, with skills people can use between meetings. Brent encourages small, achievable steps and checks in on what is and isn’t working.
Clients can expect a collaborative planning process. Brent will listen first, then suggest approaches and homework that fit each person's life. He frames therapy as a team effort toward clearer thinking, steadier mood, and better day-to-day coping.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking small actions toward those values. It helps with anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck by teaching practical ways to accept difficult thoughts while moving forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It offers tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which can ease depression, anxiety, and mood swings.
Brent treats finding the right approach as a shared process. He will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs, checking in and adjusting the plan together as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues help the work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or text works well for quick check-ins or brief skill practice. These options make therapy more flexible for busy days, work breaks, or when leaving the house is difficult.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English