Brian Sobieski
Experienced counselor for family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brian
Brian Sobieski is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical help for everyday family and parenting challenges. He speaks plainly and offers short-term, goal-focused support aimed at improving daily coping. He works with individuals, couples, and families who want clearer communication and better routines at home.
He uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful patterns and replace them with workable strategies. Solution-focused ideas help keep sessions practical and time-limited.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are used to reduce stress and improve emotional awareness when needed. Brian trained at Montclair State University and holds an LPC license in New Jersey. He brings 25 years of counseling experience to sessions and draws on that background to offer calm, steady guidance.
He often centers sessions on clear steps clients can try between meetings. Sessions can include coaching-style support for life changes, parenting guidance, and help with relationship or communication problems. He also addresses mood concerns such as depression, bipolar conditions, anxiety, panic, and trauma-related reactions using tools that focus on daily functioning.
Clients who prefer remote care can work with him using several online formats. He accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. To start, a short questionnaire and scheduling step connect people to the right appointment time.
Approaches That Fit Online Family and Parenting Work
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely and helps clients set goals that matter to them. This approach is useful for parents who need space to talk through values and make choices that fit their family.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that make problems worse. It breaks these patterns into clear skills and experiments clients can try between sessions. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, mood challenges, and parenting responses that people want to change.
Finding the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options and adapt the approach to a family's goals and comfort level. That way sessions feel relevant and realistically helpful rather than overly theoretical.
Online sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy family schedules and to get support from different locations. Many families find the flexibility lets them use short, focused sessions and follow-up messages to practice new skills between meetings.
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.
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
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Brian
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- Stop at any point