Annette OBryant
Calm, practical support for stressful life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Annette
Annette OBryant is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 12 years of experience in Texas. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and other hard moments in life. Her work also covers mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, along with issues like self-esteem and coping with life changes.
She uses clear, practical methods in sessions. Conversations aim to name what feels hard and build small steps that fit a person’s daily life.
Background and approach
Annette listens without judgment and helps people find what works for them rather than imposing one fixed plan. Her training includes approaches such as cognitive behavioral work to shift unhelpful thinking, emotionally-focused methods to improve connection, and EMDR for processing traumatic memories. She also draws on mindfulness and client-centered ideas to help people notice patterns and build lasting skills.
Annette pays attention to relationship and family dynamics and to stresses that come with caregiving, blended households, aging concerns, and midlife work. She can help with communication problems, codependency, impulsivity, isolation, and related struggles that affect everyday functioning. Sessions tend to focus on practical tools and steady progress.
Annette helps clients set realistic goals, try new behaviors, and track what changes. The pace is adjusted to each person’s needs and comfort level.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy is grounded in steady listening and support. It focuses on understanding each person’s perspective and helping them find their own solutions, which is useful for stress, self-esteem, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, often helping with anxiety, depression, and coping strategies.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a method used to process painful memories and reduce their emotional charge. It can be helpful for trauma-related symptoms and distress tied to past events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk about options, try methods that fit the goals, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes therapy more likely to match a person’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy brings flexibility to this process. Video calls let people maintain visual connection while meeting from home. Phone sessions work when video isn’t possible, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing contact between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Annette
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point