Brian Zayman
Insightful LCSW for practical family matters
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, Nevada, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brian
Brian Zayman is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 26 years of practice. He uses a straightforward, conversational style that helps people talk through stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, depression, and addictions. Brian aims to make therapy practical and understandable so parents and adults can find clearer ways forward.
He focuses on everyday problems like anger, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. He also addresses family concerns and related issues such as abandonment, attachment, codependency, communication problems, and caregiver stress.
Background and approach
Brian includes attention to medical-related matters like cancer and aging when they affect emotional health. Brian trained with a Master of Social Work and holds LCSW credentials in North Carolina and Nevada. He invites clients to set their own goals and to check progress as therapy continues.
That keeps work focused and relevant to what matters most to each person. In sessions he blends approaches such as client-centered work, narrative ideas, psychodynamic thinking, solution-focused strategies, and Internal Family Systems. He describes the process as collaborative and open, encouraging questions and frank conversation about any topic that matters to the client.
Brian works with adults and couples and uses a relaxed, transparent manner. He looks at the whole person - mental, physical, and spiritual - while helping people learn new coping skills and make practical changes in day-to-day life.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and personal concerns
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what is said, and helps the person find their own solutions; this approach is useful for stress, low self-esteem, and relationship concerns.Narrative therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves. It helps separate a person from their problems so they can revise unhelpful narratives and make different choices about how to move forward. This is often helpful for trauma, identity, and communication issues.
Psychodynamic ideas explore how past patterns influence current feelings and relationships. That can uncover recurring themes that keep someone stuck and open paths to change over time.
Finding the right approach is a joint effort. The therapist works together with each client to choose which methods fit best based on goals, needs, and preferences. Plans can change as you learn what helps most.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These formats allow for regular check-ins, flexibility in scheduling, and different ways to communicate when in-person visits are not possible or convenient.
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.
Narrative Therapy
Looking at the story you have come to tell about yourself, and where it came from. The work is in separating the problem from your identity and finding accounts that fit you better.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Nevada, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
Next step
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