Brenda Drake
Understanding, practical help for parents
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brenda
Brenda Drake is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She is experienced with parenting and family-related concerns and supports people dealing with grief, addiction, bipolar disorder, and ADHD. Brenda works to create a calm space where people can talk honestly about what is hard for them.
She uses practical methods to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. Brenda blends straight‑forward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy with skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help people change thinking patterns and manage intense emotions.
Background and approach
She also draws on client-centered approaches to listen closely and build on each person’s strengths. Brenda has two decades of clinical work in Mississippi and holds the MS LPC 1723 license. Her experience includes helping people with communication problems, commitment or control issues, and the strain of caregiving.
She also addresses concerns like abandonment, attachment, body image, and blended family issues. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and small steps that fit real life. Solution-focused techniques are used to identify practical changes and track progress over time.
For relationship communication, she integrates Gottman Method principles to improve how people talk and resolve conflict. People meet her for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She offers a supportive, nonjudgmental approach and works collaboratively to find strategies that suit each person’s situation.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Brenda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try different ways of thinking and acting. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and practical problem solving. She also applies Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer interpersonal communication. These skills help when emotions feel overwhelming and relationships are strained.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Brenda will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. Treatment is collaborative and adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit counseling into busy lives. These formats let people connect from home, continue work while traveling, or check in between in-person commitments. The variety of options supports different comfort levels and schedules while focusing on practical skills and steady progress.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
Next step
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