About Brandi
Brandi Horak is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are facing addictions, grief, depression, and trauma. Brandi aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where people can take the first steps toward feeling better.
She favors a person-centered style that keeps conversations focused on what matters most to each client. Brandi also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice patterns of thought and behavior that get in the way.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior strategies are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills are needed. Brandi has worked with concerns tied to relationships, intimacy, parenting, and self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar symptoms, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
Her experience includes addressing topics such as attachment issues, adoption and foster care, and body image struggles. In sessions she adapts the pace and content to fit each person. That can mean building practical skills one week and talking through painful experiences the next.
Brandi aims to help clients set realistic goals and take small steps toward them. People can expect straightforward conversation and active problem solving. She emphasizes respect and sensitivity while tailoring the plan to individual circumstances.
Brandi encourages an open dialogue about progress and adjustments to care.
How these approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room and on understanding their goals. It involves active listening, open questions, and adapting the conversation to what feels most important for the client. This approach helps clarify values and priorities for people facing life transitions or relationship stress.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical tools to test unhelpful beliefs and build new habits, which can be useful for depression, anxiety, and patterns tied to addiction or low self-esteem. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, provides concrete skills for managing strong emotions and tolerating distress when life feels overwhelming.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose or blend methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can change over time as progress and challenges emerge.
Online sessions using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make scheduling easier and offer different ways to connect. Video is helpful when visual cues and a fuller conversation matter. Phone sessions can fit a break during a workday or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins, written reflections, and flexibility for people who prefer typing. These formats aim to make regular work on goals more practical and consistent.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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