About Brian
Brian Lussier is a Connecticut psychologist with 36 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and parenting concerns. He brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on everyday steps clients can use right away. His manner is calm and encouraging, and he aims to help people build skills that fit their life.
He has worked in many settings and spent decades supporting parents, including those with children who have disabilities.
Background and approach
That background informs how he looks at problems - not only as individual concerns but also in the context of relationships, work, and daily demands. He listens carefully and uses plain language to explain ideas. In sessions he pays attention to feelings, thoughts or beliefs, actions, and physical health.
He helps people recognize patterns and try small experiments to change them. He often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and improve emotion regulation. He also uses emotionally focused ideas to look at how relationships affect mood and behavior.
Solution-focused techniques are part of his work when clients want practical, short-term strategies to move forward. He looks for strengths people may have overlooked and builds on those resources. Humor and straightforward feedback appear naturally in his work when appropriate.
Brian aims to help people increase coping skills, solve pressing problems, and notice gradual improvements. He holds the credential CT Psychologist 002173 and practices in Connecticut.
How Brian blends proven approaches in online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus. These skills can support better sleep, emotion regulation, and stress management in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and pick or combine methods that make sense. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what feels useful and realistic for the client.
Online formats offer practical advantages for busy lives. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice interactions in real time, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easy to check in between sessions and to get short, written reflections or strategies. These options increase flexibility and help therapy fit into different schedules and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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