Brittany Bordonaro
Compassionate support for family and relationships
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brittany
Brittany Bordonaro is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a wide range of relationship and personal issues. She writes in a direct, practical way and aims to make conversations feel straightforward and caring. Parents and adults who worry about family stress, relationships, or personal struggles may find her style easy to follow.
She brings 15 years of clinical experience to each session and works from Washington, District of Columbia.
Background and approach
Brittany keeps sessions grounded in everyday problems and strengths. She listens first, then helps people notice what already works for them. From there she offers steps to reduce stress, improve communication, or handle tough events like trauma or loss.
She uses approaches such as client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to teach skills for coping and for changing unhelpful patterns. She also uses evidence-informed methods that focus on relationships, including elements of the Gottman method for partners and narrative ideas to reframe painful stories. Motivational interviewing is part of her toolbox when someone needs help finding the drive to change behaviors.
These approaches are used in clear, concrete ways during sessions. Her background includes extensive work with military-related systems and community family services. She emphasizes trust, respect, and cultural awareness in the therapeutic relationship.
Practical skill building and short-term relief are common aims in her work. Brittany encourages clients to set realistic goals and to try techniques between sessions. She helps people prioritize the issues that matter most and track progress that feels meaningful.
Approaches That Translate to Online Sessions
Brittany commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy when meeting with clients online. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience, helping people feel heard and guiding them to set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thoughts and habits into concrete steps and teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, mood, and stress.She also draws on the Gottman Method for relationship-focused work, offering exercises that improve communication and reduce recurring conflict. Together with clients she decides which combination of approaches fits best for the situation. Finding the right method is a joint process and she adjusts the plan as goals and needs become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules, allow follow-up between appointments, and let people use the format they find most comfortable. The variety of online formats supports flexible, ongoing work on communication, coping skills, and problem solving.
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.
Gottman Method
A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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