Raven Brown-McKinney
Helping parents and families build workable skills
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, Alabama, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Raven
Raven Brown-McKinney is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas. She focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She writes in a direct, warm way and aims to help people find workable steps forward when life feels overwhelming.
Raven draws on practical therapy methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people handle daily pressures.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support values-based change. Sessions tend to be collaborative and straightforward, with attention to skills that can be used between meetings. She brings six years of clinical practice to her work as a licensed social worker.
Her background includes crisis intervention and experience with domestic violence, assessment, and health education. That experience informs how she helps people navigate safety, stress, and difficult transitions. Clients can expect a direct but empathetic approach that focuses on clear goals and small, manageable steps.
Therapy includes talking through problems, practicing coping skills, and building routines that fit each person’s life. Raven aims to help people feel more capable in their roles at home and at work. She offers sessions in English and provides multiple online formats.
Practical concerns like caregiver stress, communication problems, parenting challenges, and grief are among the many issues she addresses using evidence-informed methods.
Therapeutic approaches and what online sessions look like
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It is useful for life changes, stress, and patterns that keep people stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical skills to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with daily stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm in tense family moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Raven will collaborate with each person to decide which method or combination fits best based on needs, goals, and personal preference. The plan can change over time as goals evolve and progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy family lives. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person sessions, while phone sessions can work when schedules are tight. Live chat and text-based messaging give short-term check-ins and tools between meetings. These options help people keep therapy consistent while juggling work, parenting, and other responsibilities.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Alabama, Oregon, Louisiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Raven
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point