About Brenda
Brenda Yanofsky is a Michigan-based psychologist with 35 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and ADHD. She speaks plainly and listens first to understand what a person is struggling with. Her style aims to make sessions feel practical and manageable for busy lives.
Brenda uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help people shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current connections. Mindfulness techniques are offered to help with anxiety, sleep, and coping with strong emotions. She also uses client-centered and psychodynamic perspectives to explore life stories and meaning when that feels useful.
Sessions focus on small, doable steps clients can try between meetings. Her background spans clinical psychology work in Michigan and many years of practice with adults facing life transitions, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and aging concerns. She blends psychological methods with attention to the mind-body connection when clients want that included.
Brenda offers several remote session formats and works with each person to set a schedule that fits their routine. Her approach emphasizes collaboration, steady pacing, and practical strategies that build on each person’s strengths.
Approaches for online care and how they help
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current bonds and reactions. In sessions this can mean mapping recurring relationship cycles, improving communication, and reducing reactivity so people feel more connected and understood.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and habits with clear, step-by-step techniques. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and many day-to-day challenges because it gives practical exercises to try between sessions.
Mindfulness therapy offers simple attention and breathing practices to lower stress and improve sleep and focus. These practices are often paired with other approaches to help people manage strong emotions and stay grounded.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked in the past, then recommend a blended plan. Adjustments are made over time based on what feels helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth sessions that need face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can fit brief check-ins or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick reflections, homework check-ins, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options aim to make care more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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