About Brandy
Brandy Colson is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 11 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) credential and draws on practical approaches to help clients move forward. Brandy works from Florida and offers services in English.
She focuses on everyday problems that wear people down. That includes relationship strain, parenting challenges, workplace stress, and coping after loss.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and identity questions related to LGBT issues. Brandy uses clear, goal-oriented methods to make therapy feel useful. She often blends cognitive behavioral ideas with solution-focused exercises and trauma-informed steps.
Sessions emphasize skills you can apply between meetings, like managing strong emotions and shifting unhelpful thoughts. Her background includes support for people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and complicated grief. She also addresses codependency, infidelity, hoarding, and problems with communication and control.
Clients can expect straightforward conversation and practical tools rather than long jargon-filled explanations. Brandy aims to meet people where they are and help them set realistic goals. If someone wants coaching-style focus or help coping with major life changes, she blends those elements into the work.
Practical, goal-focused approaches for online therapy
Brandy commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. That approach helps with anxiety, depression, and unhelpful thinking patterns by teaching tools to shift thoughts and change behavior.She also incorporates solution-focused therapy, which concentrates on small, achievable goals and what a person wants to be different. This method is useful when someone wants brief, practical steps to improve relationships, work stress, or daily routines.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Brandy will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try. The plan can change as needs evolve so the work stays focused and useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and styles. Video is good for longer conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets people reflect and respond on their own time. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy family and work life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia
- Languages
- English