Brittany Henderson
Supportive, practical help for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brittany
Brittany Henderson is a licensed clinical social worker in West Virginia with 13 years of professional experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or low self-esteem. She also supports those facing parenting challenges, relationship tensions, addiction concerns, trauma, and identity questions.
She treats everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Her approach is practical and conversational. Brittany adapts sessions to match each person’s needs and goals.
Background and approach
She mixes techniques from evidence-based models so people learn skills they can use between sessions. That might mean working on clear thinking, practicing new ways to relate, or learning emotion regulation tools. She commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and take useful action.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Attachment-based ideas guide work on closeness and trust in relationships. Sessions are aimed at real-life problems.
Brittany focuses on steps people can try at home, parenting strategies, and ways to manage cravings or mood shifts. She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes. If someone is ready to start, she asks a few questions to match goals and then builds a plan together.
The tone in sessions is warm and direct, with an emphasis on practical tools and steady support.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. Online sessions can include exercises to clarify what matters and short homework to practice new behavior between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting. In online work this often means breaking problems into steps, trying small experiments at home, and reviewing results in the next session.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Brittany will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what is helpful and what is not.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules or to continue work when in-person visits are difficult. The variety of formats also lets people use shorter check-ins or longer conversations depending on what they need that week.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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