About Brian
Brian Lux is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and other concerns such as ADHD, addictions, and issues around gender and identity. He takes a strengths-based, solution-oriented approach in sessions.
That means he helps people spot what is already working in their life and build on it. He mixes practical strategies with mindfulness and narrative techniques to help people untangle problems and move forward.
Background and approach
Brian has experience in residential settings, community mental health, and independent practice in Illinois. That background means he has seen many kinds of life challenges and practical ways to respond. He aims to balance attention to pain and loss with a steady optimism about change.
In session he listens for past successes, interests, and personal resources that can become starting points for change. He also pays attention to how stories about oneself shape daily choices, and he helps people reframe those stories when they get in the way. Brian describes his work as respectful of spiritual concerns while not imposing any beliefs.
He uses a bit of humor where it helps, and he values the relationship in therapy as an important place to notice growth and resilience.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Brian uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small, manageable steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings that arise. He also draws on client-centered methods that focus on listening, empathy, and reflecting a person's experience so they feel heard and understood. Mindfulness techniques are used to teach grounding and attention skills that can reduce reactivity and improve sleep and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try strategies that fit those needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The process is collaborative and practical, with focus on skills that can be used between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible, lower-bandwidth ways to stay connected between appointments and to fit conversations into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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