About Brandi
Brandi Ellis is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She brings a calm, straightforward style and encourages clients to use their own strengths as they work through hard moments. Brandi uses a practical approach so people leave sessions with clear next steps.
Her method centers on listening first and tailoring tools to each person's needs. She blends cognitive-behavioral techniques with emotion-focused work to address thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Background and approach
Brandi also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people settle on values and make choices that fit their life. Over 12 years of clinical experience in California shaped her focus on a wide range of issues. She supports people facing trauma, grief, addictions, ADHD, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and career stress.
Brandi also helps with intimacy-related issues, codependency, and compassion fatigue. Sessions move at a steady pace with clear goals and hands-on skills practice. Clients can expect check-ins on progress and homework that is realistic for daily life.
The aim is to build coping skills that work outside the therapy hour. Brandi works in English and offers multiple online session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She is licensed in California as an LMFT and uses that experience to guide individual therapy choices.
Approaches and practical online care
Brandi commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors. CBT focuses on small experiments and practical skills that change how problems play out day to day.She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people clarify their values and take steps that matter even when feelings are hard. That approach is useful for chronic stress, anxiety, and situations where avoidance gets in the way of goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and recommend techniques that fit your life. Decisions about methods are collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework review, or quick coping strategies between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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