Brian Lux
Gentle, practical counseling for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brian
Brian Lux is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 20 years of experience. He offers calm, straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting concerns, and similar life challenges. He writes and talks plainly, and aims to make sessions feel like practical conversations where next steps are clear.
His style is strengths-based and solution-oriented. Sessions often focus on skills people can use right away, small experiments to try between meetings, and noticing what already helps in daily life.
Background and approach
Brian brings mindfulness and narrative ideas into work, and he mixes in humor when it fits. Brian has worked in residential settings, community mental health, and independent practice. That variety shaped a practical, flexible approach to common problems like sleep trouble, impulsivity, addiction-related issues, and career stress.
He also addresses identity and sexual orientation related concerns and has experience with complicated grief and chronic illness challenges. He sees each person as having untapped resources and past successes to build from. Brian pays attention to losses and pain while holding a hopeful, forward-looking stance.
He also notes that spirituality is part of his worldview but does not impose personal beliefs on others. Sessions are offered in English and he accepts international clients. For people who want straightforward, action-minded support with a humane touch, Brian aims to make the first steps clear and manageable.
Practical approaches for online support
Brian blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in ways that are easy to understand. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then choosing actions that match what matters to a person. It can help with anxiety, mood struggles, and problems that come from avoidance.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the conversation. The therapist listens closely, offers empathy, and helps people find their own solutions. This approach can be useful when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort through decisions, identity questions, or relationship concerns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Brian collaborates with each person to see which methods fit their goals, preferences, and life circumstances. Together they try ideas, adjust as needed, and focus on steps that feel meaningful.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule around work, parenting, or other commitments and to keep momentum between meetings. The different formats let people choose how they communicate and what feels most helpful for progress.
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.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Brian
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point