About Brandy
Brandy Peterson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia. She brings 13 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life changes. Her work includes supporting people who are navigating trauma, parenting challenges, and ADHD-related struggles.
She earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Liberty University. Over more than a decade she has worked in a range of roles and settings with adults and children.
Background and approach
That variety shaped a practical style focused on everyday problems and real actions. Brandy uses clear, structured tools drawn from cognitive-behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She pairs those with mindfulness practices and trauma-focused methods when needed.
Sessions focus on building skills for managing emotions, improving communication, and handling stressors more effectively. In the room she emphasizes collaboration. She listens to each person’s goals and helps create step-by-step plans to meet them.
She also offers coaching-style guidance for people juggling career demands, parenting responsibilities, or transitions. Her approach is steady and respectful. She aims to give practical strategies, not just talk, so clients leave with things to try between sessions.
Brandy works in English and sees clients in Virginia while offering multiple online session formats for flexibility.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Brandy often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to guide online work. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. DBT focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication in stressful moments.She also incorporates mindfulness and trauma-focused techniques when those fit a person’s history and goals. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about what feels most useful and tailor methods to their needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single style.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and feedback. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or to fit a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or people who prefer written conversation. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules while using the same therapeutic approaches as in-person work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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