About Brandy
Brandy Jastrow is a licensed social worker in Wisconsin who has worked as a therapist for eight years. She uses direct, respectful conversation to help people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck. Brandy focuses on practical steps toward change and supports clients through hard moments without judgment.
Her style centers on building a strong working relationship first. That relationship guides how sessions are shaped and what goals are chosen. She listens for what matters most to each person and adjusts the plan as needed.
Background and approach
Brandy commonly helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. She also supports those facing life transitions, grief, addiction concerns, career strain, and ADHD-related challenges. Her work includes concerns around intimacy, communication, body image, and caregiver stress.
In sessions she draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. These approaches produce hands-on techniques like thought tracking, emotion regulation skills, and intention-setting exercises that clients can practice between sessions. Brandy explains options clearly and tailors conversations to each person's needs.
She aims to help people find small, sustainable changes that add up to a different daily experience. If someone wants a steady, practical partner in making changes, she offers that steady support.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-centered work focuses on the persons priorities and experiences. The therapist follows the client's lead, asks clarifying questions, and helps shape goals based on what matters most. This approach is useful when someone needs a coach-like ally and a plan that fits their life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions include simple exercises like tracking patterns, testing unhelpful thoughts, and trying new behaviors between meetings. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for regulating intense emotions and improving relationships. It offers concrete practices such as distress-tolerance techniques and communication strategies that people can practice in real time.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and collaborate on what seems most likely to help based on the client's goals and preferences. That makes therapy a joint process rather than a fixed prescription.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and screen-share worksheets. Phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter connection. Live chat and text messaging can support shorter check-ins, accountability, or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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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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