Brianna Yates
Skilled LCSW focused on practical support
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brianna
Brianna Yates is a licensed clinical social worker who brings practical experience from medical social work and community services to her online practice. She uses straightforward, person-focused care to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her style is warm and grounded, with attention to what clients say they need in day-to-day life.
She spent several years supporting people facing chronic health concerns and new medical issues. That background shaped how she talks about illness, caregiving stress, and practical coping.
Background and approach
Brianna also worked at a local domestic violence agency where she provided therapy and education to adults and children. In sessions she listens first, then helps clients set clear, realistic goals. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and build stress management skills.
Motivational Interviewing elements help people find reason and momentum for change. Brianna emphasizes a collaborative, respectful approach. She adapts each meeting to what a person needs that day, whether that means skill practice, problem solving, or emotional support.
Her work also covers relationship concerns, grief, parenting questions, and attention-related struggles among other areas. Outside of work she enjoys cooking, walking, and watching new shows. She grew up on the north side of Chicago suburbs and is the oldest of four girls with an identical twin.
Brianna works as an Illinois licensed clinical social worker - LCSW.
How Brianna’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on meeting people where they are. It begins with listening and building a respectful working relationship so clients feel heard and understood. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, empathetic presence while sorting through feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises to spot unhelpful thought patterns and try different responses. This can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress management.
Mindfulness Therapy adds short practices to calm the body and sharpen attention. These exercises are practical and brief, and they pair well with CBT skills to reduce reactivity and improve coping during tough moments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose techniques that match goals, values, and day-to-day life. That planning happens together and can change over time as needs evolve.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules, continue work while managing health concerns, and choose the format that feels most comfortable. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to work well across these formats.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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