Brett Gold
Calm, practical therapy for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed in
- Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brett
Brett Gold is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, low self esteem, depression, and addiction. He works with concerns around relationships, intimacy, parenting, eating and sleeping struggles, and life changes. Brett practices in Washington and brings 29 years of experience to clinical work.
He treats each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. He shapes conversations to fit each person’s needs instead of using one fixed method.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. Brett helps clients name patterns, reduce symptoms, and build small skills that make daily life easier. Over nearly three decades of practice he has supported people facing complex problems like bipolar disorder, chronic pain or illness, and co-occurring substance use.
He also addresses issues such as commitment struggles, communication problems, codependency, and family problems. His work includes helping people cope after separation, domestic violence, or abandonment experiences. Brett uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adjusts them to what feels workable for the person in the room.
He listens for strengths and builds from them, while also addressing immediate concerns that interfere with day-to-day functioning. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Therapy sessions can include practical goal-setting, emotion regulation tools, and strategies for improving relationships and parenting.
Brett emphasizes clear communication and collaboration while clients move toward greater stability and wellbeing.
Evidence-based approaches for online therapy
Many of the techniques Brett relies on come from well-established, evidence-based traditions. One approach focuses on teaching practical skills for managing strong emotions and stress - clients learn short exercises to calm the body and shift attention when feelings become overwhelming. Another approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking and testing those thoughts with simple behavioral experiments to reduce symptoms of anxiety or depression.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients and the therapist work together to pick tools that feel useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue work from home or while traveling within the same region. They also allow brief check-ins and written guidance between meetings, which can help people practice skills and track progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point