About Brenda
Brenda Drake is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She practices in Mississippi and aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. Her style is warm and accepting, and she focuses on what matters most to each person.
Clients come with many kinds of concerns, including relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, anger, addiction, grief, and parenting stress. She also supports people dealing with self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Brenda pays attention to how different parts of life connect, like work, identity, and family roles. In sessions she uses clear, goal-oriented methods alongside listening. She pulls from client-centered techniques to follow each person’s lead, and from cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
When emotions feel overwhelming, she adds skills from dialectical behavior approaches to help regulate intense feelings. Brenda brings a practical lens to communication problems, commitment worries, abandonment and attachment issues, and blended family concerns. She helps people build better boundaries, reduce conflict, and cope with chronic illness or caregiving strain.
Her work also addresses body image, codependency, and the emotional fallout of separation or divorce. People who choose her can expect straightforward language, concrete strategies, and collaboration on next steps. She aims to help clients make small changes that fit daily life and that lead to clearer routines, calmer reactions, and stronger relationships.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s concerns. The therapist creates space to reflect what matters most and helps people decide what to work on next. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns and build better routines. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that can be practiced between sessions to reduce intense reactions and improve coping.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Brenda will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that match those goals. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework, or when a shorter touchpoint helps keep progress on track. These options increase flexibility and help people use therapy in ways that match their day-to-day routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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