About Brittney
Brittney Barton-Wagner is a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist in Texas. She brings 13 years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and depression. Her approach centers on helping people break unhelpful patterns and create clearer meaning in their lives.
Brittney helps parents and individuals sort through family of origin issues, blended family stresses, and the fallout from divorce or separation.
Background and approach
She also addresses attachment concerns, abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver stress. Conversations are practical and aimed at daily life improvements. In sessions she works on communication problems, commitment and control issues, and forgiveness.
She supports people managing co-morbid conditions and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder symptoms by building routines and coping plans. Brittney uses straightforward techniques so clients can try changes between meetings. Brittney’s background includes years of clinical practice in Texas, where she has guided people toward clearer boundaries and healthier interactions.
She combines direct problem-solving with attention to past patterns that still affect current life. Her style is collaborative and solution-focused. Brittney helps people set small, achievable goals and track progress.
She invites open discussion about what is working and what needs to change, and adjusts her approach as needed to fit each person’s situation.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on specific patterns and skills people can practice. One approach emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression; it teaches concrete skills for day-to-day stress management. Another approach looks at relationship and attachment patterns, helping people understand how past connections affect current communication and closeness, and then practicing new interaction habits.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick techniques that match their goals and preferences. Together they review what helps, tweak the plan, and try different strategies until the fit feels right.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit support into breaks at work or school and to share thoughts between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English