Brett Dustin
Practical support for stress and life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brett
Brett Dustin is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, and depression. He works with adults who are managing life changes, relationship concerns, addictions, grief, intimacy questions, parenting challenges, and self-esteem struggles. Brett names practical skills and a persons own strengths as the starting point for change.
He encourages small steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Brett uses straightforward conversation to learn what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
He listens first, then offers tools grounded in proven methods. Those tools include skill-building for emotional regulation and ways to shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Over six years of practice, Brett has worked with people facing complex problems such as ADHD, bipolar symptoms, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue.
He also supports concerns around eating, sleeping, fertility, fatherhood, and grief. His experience includes many different emotional and behavioral challenges rather than one single issue. In sessions Brett blends client-centered care with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
He also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused strategies to help people set clear goals and practice new habits. Conversations are practical and aimed at real-life changes. Brett is licensed in Utah as an LCSW, license number UT LCSW 9068999-3501.
Sessions are offered in English and available through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. He invites people to begin by sharing what they most want to change and building a plan together.
Approaches and online care that focus on real skills
Client-Centered Therapy centers conversations around the persons priorities and strengths. It helps people feel heard and shapes goals based on what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. Those skills can be helpful for people dealing with intense emotions, impulsivity, or relationship conflicts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brett will help clients weigh options and choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. He frames this as a collaborative process where the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Sessions can happen by video or phone when more depth is needed, or via live chat and text-based messaging for brief check-ins and homework support. This mix of formats makes it easier to practice new skills between meetings and to fit therapy into everyday life.
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
Next step
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