About Brandy
Brandy Jastrow is a licensed social worker in Wisconsin with eight years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and motivation struggles. Her approach is warm and respectful, and she aims to make starting therapy feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
She uses a mix of practical talk and skill-building. Sessions focus on what matters most to each person, such as coping with life changes, managing mood, or improving relationships.
Background and approach
Brandy tailors conversations and plans so they fit a person's daily life and goals. Her work includes helping people with self-esteem, grief, intimacy concerns, and challenges related to addiction or ADHD. She also supports those dealing with career stress, parenting strain, and caregiving burdens.
Brandy addresses both immediate problems and longer-term patterns that get in the way of feeling better. Common techniques include exploring thoughts and behaviors, practicing present-moment awareness, and building concrete skills to manage intense feelings. Motivational conversations are used when someone needs help finding direction or making a change.
Brandy aims to make each session focused and applicable to real situations. She invites clients to move at a comfortable pace and emphasizes collaboration. The goal is to help people develop tools they can use between sessions and to build confidence in handling future stressors.
Brandy describes the first step as an act of courage, and she offers steady support through the process.
Online approaches that focus on skills and insight
Brandy commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that maintain stress or low mood. CBT provides concrete tools for problems like anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and body image concerns.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. DBT-style skills are useful when intense feelings, anger, or relationship conflicts make daily life harder.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative task. Brandy will listen to your needs, talk through goals, and suggest which techniques to try first. She adjusts plans based on what works in practice and what feels manageable for you.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is useful for richer verbal and nonverbal work, while phone calls can fit into a lunch break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or keep a brief coaching rhythm without longer scheduling demands. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy family and work routines while keeping the focus on steady skill practice and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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