Brandi Ellis
Compassionate, practical support for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brandi
Brandi Ellis is a licensed marriage and family therapist who offers straightforward, compassionate support for people facing everyday and complex challenges. She focuses on helping with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addictions, grief, and parenting concerns. Her style is direct but warm, with an emphasis on practical steps families and individuals can use right away.
Brandi believes each person knows their story best. She listens first, then helps clients map small, doable changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. She invites clients to try skills between meetings and to notice what helps. With 12 years of experience as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - in California, Brandi blends several therapy methods to match each person’s needs.
She uses cognitive behavioral tools for thinking patterns, acceptance-based techniques for stressful feelings, and attachment ideas to improve closeness and trust. Her work also addresses issues like trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, caregiving stress, and codependency.
Brandi has experience with a wide range of life transitions, including divorce and grief, and supports people navigating identity and relationship questions. She offers sessions in English and provides therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability.
Brandi aims to make therapy clear, useful, and respectful of each person’s pace.
Therapeutic approaches used in online care
Brandi commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy as part of her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying concrete ways to change reactions and behavior. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches skills to notice difficult feelings and still take steps toward the life a person values.She frames approach selection as something to decide together. During initial conversations the therapist listens to goals, preferences, and daily realities, then suggests which methods might fit best. That choice can shift over time as progress and needs evolve, and clients are invited to weigh in at every step.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family life or to keep working on skills between meetings. The range of formats supports flexibility while keeping the focus on clear, practical steps and collaboration.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point