About Brett
Brett Dustin is a licensed clinical social worker in Utah who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, depression, and ADHD. He approaches therapy with straightforward support and respect for each person's strengths. Brett emphasizes small, practical steps that fit into daily life.
He wants clients to feel heard and to notice real change over time. Brett works from a person-centered perspective that keeps the client's goals front and center.
Background and approach
He blends practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when strong emotions or impulsive behavior get in the way of progress. Mindfulness practices are offered to help with focus, emotional regulation, and reducing stress.
Solution-focused tools are used to set clear, manageable goals and track progress week to week. Sessions are conversational and geared toward what the client needs right now. Over six years of practice, Brett has supported people with relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, sleep and eating concerns, chronic illness issues, and addiction-related challenges.
He also works with concerns related to self-esteem, impulsivity, and compassion fatigue. Brett holds a Master’s-level license: Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW. He conducts sessions in English and provides video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging formats.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connect clients with a session time.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help
Brett commonly blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and dialectical behavior therapy skills into online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related thinking patterns. DBT supplies practical emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills to use when feelings become overwhelming or impulsive behaviors arise.He takes a collaborative approach to picking methods. Clients and Brett talk about goals, try techniques, and adjust what they use over time. Finding the right mix is a process and he helps people decide what feels most useful for their situation and goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for richer conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets someone check in between sessions, and text messaging supports quick questions or brief check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still using CBT and DBT tools in practical ways.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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