About Brent
Brent Ruebensam is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 15 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and ADHD. Brent approaches sessions with respect, sensitivity, and straightforward communication.
Clients can expect a practical, person-focused style. He adapts conversation and goals to fit each person's situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. The work often centers on clearer thinking, improving day-to-day coping, and handling strong emotions like anger or grief.
Background and approach
Brent uses a mix of well-known therapies to guide sessions. He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thought patterns and uses acceptance-based work to help clients live toward their values. Attachment-informed perspectives also help when relationship patterns and early experiences show up in current difficulties.
Therapy sessions may address substance use, codependency, family of origin issues, and problems with communication and commitment. He also helps people facing trauma, dissociation, or feelings of emptiness. Conversations are direct but compassionate, focused on small, manageable changes.
People who want clear tools and steady support often find this approach useful. Brent emphasizes collaboration and practical steps so clients can notice real differences in daily life. He welcomes questions and will work with each person to set goals and track progress.
How Brent’s Approaches Work Online
Brent uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on small experiments and new routines to reduce anxiety, low mood, or impulsive patterns.He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when difficult feelings are present. ACT can be useful for managing stress, mood symptoms, and ADHD-related challenges by emphasizing flexible responses rather than fighting feelings.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Brent will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up day to day. Together they choose techniques and a plan to try, and they adjust it as progress and needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break or work around bandwidth limits. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or use brief, focused exchanges. These options provide flexibility so people can fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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