About Brenda
Brenda Drake is an LPC with two decades of experience supporting people through anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, and relationship concerns. She works with clients who face grief, addiction, ADHD, parenting strain, and issues around self-esteem and identity. Her tone is warm and direct, aimed at people who need straightforward help and clear strategies.
Brenda keeps sessions practical and grounded. She listens first, and then helps people set doable goals. Conversations focus on immediate coping skills and small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
She mixes talking through feelings with exercises people can try between sessions. Her background includes long-term practice in Mississippi, where she has helped people manage life transitions, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She also supports those facing abandonment, attachment struggles, and communication problems.
These areas often show up together, and she helps people untangle what matters most to them. Brenda uses several approaches to match the person and the problem. She draws from client-centered principles to build trust, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and DBT skills for emotion regulation when needed.
She also uses solution-focused strategies to find concrete next steps. People who seek her out usually want practical tools, steady listening, and a plan they can follow between meetings. Brenda aims to help people regain a sense of control, improve relationships, and move forward after difficult experiences.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and building a trusting conversation. Online sessions let the therapist and client talk through experiences, clarify values, and plan small steps when feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; online CBT often uses homework, thought records, and short experiments that clients can try between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships, such as distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness skills that are taught in short, teachable segments.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then recommend techniques to try. It’s normal to adjust methods over time so the work fits the person’s needs and pace.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and working through exercises together. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, progress notes, and reminders between longer sessions. These formats increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent around daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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