About Brittany
Brittany Vaughn is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, depression, and the effects of trauma. She focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Brittany writes and speaks plainly so parents and busy adults can follow along.
Brittany studied social work at Southern Illinois University, earning a Bachelor of Social Work in 2012 and a Master of Social Work in 2014. She brings 12 years of experience in clinical settings.
Background and approach
Early in her career she provided therapy to adolescents in a residential program who had experienced severe trauma. She also spent time working in public schools in Williamson County offering therapy for students with a range of concerns, including behavior disturbances. More recently she has provided outpatient counseling to children, adolescents, and adults.
That mix of settings shaped her direct, skills-focused style. In sessions she helps people set clear goals and build steps to reach them. She uses evidence-informed tools to address anxiety, mood problems, impulsivity, and relationship concerns.
When trauma is part of someone’s history she helps them process what happened and reduce long-term effects on daily life. Brittany sees therapy as a collaborative process. She works with each person to pick approaches that match their needs and pace.
Her aim is to help clients gain skills they can use outside sessions to improve everyday functioning and family life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Brittany commonly uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and shaping sessions around the person's goals and values. This approach helps when someone needs a safe space to sort priorities and decide what change looks like for them.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, a skills-based method that looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and many ADHD-related struggles because it teaches concrete strategies to change patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Brittany collaborates with each person to choose or blend methods based on their needs, goals, and how they respond during early sessions. That teamwork makes it easier to adjust methods as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different lifestyles. Video is helpful for deeper conversations, phone calls can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging supports frequent, short check-ins. These options give flexibility for people juggling parenting, school, or work while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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