About Brenda
Brenda Canales is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with seven years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and problems with addiction. She also supports clients facing relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, anger, parenting strain, and career or life transitions. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Her approach is practical and down-to-earth. Brenda listens without judgment and works with each person to set clear, achievable goals.
Background and approach
She tailors conversations and plans so people can use skills between sessions. Brenda uses a mix of well-known methods to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build healthier habits. She helps clients notice what matters most to them, practice new skills, and move forward even when things feel stuck.
Motivational techniques help when someone wants to change behaviors linked to substance use or motivation struggles. She aims to make sessions straightforward and useful. Clients can expect to talk through recent struggles, learn coping tools, and try small behavior changes.
Progress is measured in real-life steps, not in labels. Brenda respects cultural and language needs and offers therapy in Spanish as well as English. She draws on seven years of practice in Florida and adapts her style to each person’s goals and pace.
How Brenda’s Approach Fits into Online Therapy
Brenda combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT - with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - to help people notice what matters to them and change unhelpful thinking patterns. ACT focuses on identifying values and taking small committed actions toward them, which helps with motivation, life changes, and meaning. CBT targets thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and depression strong, teaching concrete skills to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.She treats approach selection as a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That discussion may include trying a technique for several sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversations and skill coaching, while phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send short updates, practice skills between meetings, or get support when schedules make longer sessions hard to arrange. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Ohio, Maine, Minnesota, Virginia
- Languages
- English, Spanish