About Kerry
Kerry Branum is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, life transitions, and relationship or parenting concerns. He draws on 14 years of experience to offer practical support for issues like grief, addiction, ADHD, and career questions. Kerry aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for busy lives.
He uses clear, goal-focused work in sessions. Kerry mixes talk, skill-building, and steadiness to help people manage strong emotions and recurring problems.
Background and approach
He leans on approaches that teach coping skills and clarify values so people can take next steps they actually want. Kerry also offers coaching and teaching-style guidance when clients want more structured tools. That can look like setting short-term goals, practicing new communication habits, or building routines to support mood and energy.
These techniques are chosen to match each person's needs and pace. He trained in counseling at Missouri Baptist University and earned an Educational Specialist degree in Counselor Education from the University of Mississippi. Kerry has worked in therapy, education, and coaching settings across a range of concerns.
His background gives him experience with both talk therapy and practical skill training. Sessions are presented in straightforward language and focus on small, doable changes. Kerry works collaboratively to name what matters to the client, reduce unhelpful patterns, and build skills for coping with life stressors.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How Kerry Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them, accept difficult thoughts, and take actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and major life transitions by shifting attention from avoiding feelings to building a meaningful life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress because it provides step-by-step tools to manage symptoms and test new behaviors.
Kerry treats choosing an approach as a team effort. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try methods that fit the situation and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English