About Brandi
Brandi Okamoto is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 12 years of professional experience based in Hawaii. She offers straightforward, compassionate support for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, grief, and relationship or family struggles. Brandi emphasizes an open space where clients can speak honestly and be heard without judgment.
Over a decade of practice has given her experience guiding people through major life changes and everyday pressures. She helps clients who are navigating career strain, self-esteem issues, parenting questions, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
ADHD and compassion fatigue are also among the concerns she addresses. Brandi takes a practical approach in sessions. Conversations focus on identifying patterns that cause distress and building small, doable steps toward better daily routines and coping skills.
She aims to make therapy concrete and relevant to each person’s life. Her background includes working with people affected by adoption and foster care, blended family issues, substance use, hospice and end-of-life challenges, and first responder stress. She draws on this experience to offer realistic strategies for communication, setting boundaries, and managing intense emotions.
Brandi works in English and is licensed as an LMHC in Hawaii and Washington. She meets with clients using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
Evidence-based methods and flexible online care
Brandi uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach she commonly applies helps people spot unhelpful thinking and replace it with clearer, more balanced thoughts to reduce anxiety and low mood. Another approach emphasizes building daily routines and small behavioral changes to address addiction, ADHD-related challenges, and difficulties with focus or organization.Finding the right method is a collaborative process. Brandi works with each person to understand their goals, daily routines, and what feels workable. Together they try approaches, adjust strategies, and choose techniques that match the client’s preferences and life demands.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a tight schedule or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can support short check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other routines while keeping progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Washington
- Languages
- English
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