About Brenda
Brenda Oliver is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 28 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and challenges such as ADHD. Her approach is warm and respectful and aimed at making everyday life more manageable.
Brenda works in a straightforward way. Sessions focus on practical skills for emotional control, communication, and building self-confidence. She partners with clients to set goals and to find steps that fit their daily routines.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term work supporting people through grief, relationship strains, addiction concerns, and major life changes. She also helps with parenting pressures, career questions, and caregiving stress. Brenda adapts her conversations and plans to each person’s situation.
Brenda uses several well-known methods to support change, including acceptance-based strategies, cognitive tools to change unhelpful thoughts, and client-centered listening. She also draws on techniques that teach emotion regulation and strengthen connections in close relationships. In sessions clients can expect compassionate listening alongside concrete suggestions.
Brenda encourages small, steady steps and checks in on what works and what needs adjusting. Her goal is to help people feel more capable and to improve how they navigate daily demands.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on values-based action. It is useful when someone is wrestling with avoidance, low motivation, or chronic stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change patterns that keep problems going. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and attention-related challenges. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotional experience and improving how people connect and communicate in close relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to concerns, try methods that match goals, and adjust the plan over time. Clients and the therapist check what helps and change course when needed so the work stays relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and guided skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat or messaging can support quick reflections, coaching, or ongoing prompts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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