Lanette Bryant
Calm, practical support for life’s hardest problems
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- Maine
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lanette
Lanette Bryant is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Maine. She brings four years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, substance use, trauma, and related concerns. She aims to make the first step into therapy a little easier for people who are nervous about starting treatment.
She creates an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about painful thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Safety and connection are central to her style. Sessions aim to build trust and practical ways to cope between visits. Lanette uses several evidence-based approaches to match what each person needs.
She draws on client-centered methods to follow a person’s priorities, and uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify patterns that keep problems going. She also brings skills from dialectical behavior therapy for managing strong emotions and improving day-to-day functioning. Her work includes addressing addiction, anger, identity and LGBT-related concerns, and family or parenting stress.
She also supports people coping with dissociation, attachment struggles, personality-related issues, and problems that overlap with intellectual disability or complex medical and social needs. Lanette offers sessions using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Language of service is English and she works with people located in Maine.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. In sessions the therapist reflects concerns back and helps clarify goals so people feel heard and understood. This approach helps when someone is uncertain what to work on or needs emotional support.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. The therapist and client identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try simple experiments and exercises to change them. CBT is helpful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day problems that cause distress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, contributes skills for managing intense emotions and reducing impulsive behaviors. It teaches present-moment awareness, distress tolerance, and ways to improve relationships, which can be useful for people coping with anger, mood instability, or self-destructive urges.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit a person’s needs, and adjust strategies over time. Together they decide what feels most useful and practical for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep working on skills between sessions. The range of formats also helps people pick the way of connecting that feels most comfortable for them.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
Next step
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