Kerry Branum
Compassionate counselor for parenting and life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kerry
Kerry Branum is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside many other life stressors. He brings 14 years of experience as a counselor, coach, and teacher. Kerry listens without judgment and helps parents and individuals sort through everyday problems.
He uses straightforward language and practical steps so busy caregivers can act between sessions. Kerry blends talk and skill practice to address anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
He also supports people facing grief, caregiving challenges, chronic illness, and parenting questions. Sessions often include goal setting, homework, and new ways to handle difficult moments. Training includes a master’s in counseling and an educational specialist degree in counselor education with a play therapy focus.
He holds the Missouri LPC license number 2012022789. His background as a teacher shapes how he shares tools and explains ideas in clear terms. Kerry uses evidence-based approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance strategies, along with attachment-focused work when relationships are at the center.
He encourages collaboration so clients steer the pace and priorities of care. Many sessions are practical and skill-oriented, aimed at small changes that add up. Parents can expect concrete suggestions for managing behavior and stress.
Individuals will find a calm, direct style that emphasizes usable skills and steady progress.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for stress, mood concerns, and coping skills.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Kerry will work together with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape the plan and allows techniques to be adjusted as work progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy family schedule. These options allow therapy to continue from home or while traveling and let clients use the formats that feel most comfortable. Many people find the flexibility helps them practice skills between sessions and stay consistent with their goals.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Kerry
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point