About Brittany
Brittany Stephen is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and questions around gender and sexual identity. She combines empathy with cultural awareness to create a calm, collaborative space. Her style is warm and affirming while remaining practical and goal-oriented.
Brittany draws on nine years of experience in the mental health field. She uses talk-based work alongside creative tools like music to help people name feelings and try new ways of relating.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding patterns, building safer connections, and strengthening coping skills. She helps people process attachment wounds, abandonment fears, and dissociation in ways that are paced to each person. She also supports those navigating autism and Asperger Syndrome, body image concerns, and stress from caregiving or chronic illness.
Communication problems, codependency, and commitment issues are common topics in her work. Brittany offers care that is LGBTQ affirming and attentive to cultural background and identity. She believes healing involves both insight and practice, so sessions often pair reflection with concrete steps to try between meetings.
Musical expression can be used when words feel limited. Brittany practices in Georgia as an LPC, and she works with adults, college students, and young adults. She aims to make therapy feel like a partnership where people leave with clearer direction and tools they can use in daily life.
How evidence-based approaches fit into online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques mean using methods shown to help people feel better and cope more effectively. One common approach is emotion-focused work, which helps people name and process strong feelings and improve how they relate to others. This is useful for relationship stress, attachment wounds, and grief.Another approach involves skills-based strategies for managing overwhelm and burnout. Those methods teach concrete practices for emotional regulation, grounding, and daily coping that can be practiced between sessions. They work well for anxiety, chronic stress, and chronic illness management.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Brittany will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, symptoms, and preferences. Together they try techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video sessions let people use visual cues to build connection, while phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and flexibility for those with irregular schedules. These options help people stay consistent with work toward their goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia, Georgia
- Languages
- English