About Brennan
Dr. Brennan Atherton offers calm, straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship or family tensions. He is a North Dakota psychologist with nine years of clinical experience and a direct approach that aims to make the first step easier to take.
He focuses on practical conversation and planning. Sessions center on clear goals, manageable steps, and skills you can use between meetings. He adapts the pace and focus to each person's needs rather than following a single rigid method.
Background and approach
Dr. Atherton has worked with people dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and mood challenges such as bipolar disorder. He also supports those navigating parenting pressures, career stress, midlife transitions, and compassion fatigue.
ADHD and attention concerns are among the issues he addresses in sessions. He has particular experience with autism spectrum concerns, including what was formerly called Asperger's Syndrome, and with attachment and family-of-origin issues. Communication problems, impulsivity, and feelings of isolation or emptiness are other common topics he helps people talk through.
In sessions he aims to be respectful and sensitive, matching discussion and plans to what each person needs. He frames therapy as a collaborative process where small changes build toward clearer direction and better day-to-day coping.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Dr. Atherton draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on problem solving and skill building. One approach emphasizes practical strategies to manage anxiety and ADHD-related difficulties, teaching routines, time management tools, and attention-support techniques you can try between sessions. Another approach centers on processing trauma, grief, or intense emotion through paced conversation and grounding exercises to help reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a team effort. He works collaboratively to identify which techniques match a person's goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. That means trying an approach, checking how it feels, and adjusting the plan so it becomes more useful over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for in-depth conversation and using worksheets or screen-shared materials. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing coaching easier to fit into a busy schedule. These options aim to make therapy flexible and accessible while supporting steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota
- Languages
- English
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