About Brittany
Brittany Vaughn is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, and many everyday struggles. She writes brief, practical plans with clients and prioritizes clear steps to reduce symptoms that get in the way of daily life. Brittany uses straightforward talk and goal-focused work to help people regain footing after hard events.
She listens for what matters most and helps clients set realistic next steps.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at small, doable changes that add up over time. She completed a Bachelor of Social Work at Southern Illinois University in December 2012 and a Master of Social Work in May 2014.
Over the years she has worked in residential settings with adolescents who experienced extreme trauma, and she provided school-based therapy in Williamson County public schools for students with behavior challenges. More recently she has provided outpatient therapy to children, adolescents, and adults for several years.
That range of settings informs a practical, paced approach when addressing issues like parenting strain, relationship difficulties, compulsive behaviors, and adjustment after major life changes. Brittany blends client-centered conversations with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy, plus mindfulness and motivational interviewing when helpful.
She aims to help people build coping skills, improve communication, and find clearer direction in work and life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy begins by following the client's lead and focusing on what matters most to them. It centers conversations on personal goals, values, and strengths so sessions feel relevant and respectful. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and phobias. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which helps when emotions feel overwhelming.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Brittany collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She starts with what the client brings and adjusts tools and pacing based on progress and preference so the plan evolves together.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can provide short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while using the approaches above in ways that meet each client's day-to-day constraints.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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