About Brenda
Brenda Perea is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 33 years of experience helping people face stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes. She works with individuals on relationship and parenting challenges, coping skills, career concerns, and substance-related issues. Brenda offers support in both English and Spanish and practices from Colorado.
Her approach is warm and direct. She listens first, then helps people build practical skills they can use between sessions.
Background and approach
She focuses on respect and nonjudgment, and aims to make therapy feel like a steady, helpful conversation rather than a lecture. Brenda uses a mix of methods to fit each person’s needs.
She draws on client-centered work to follow the client’s lead, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and habits, mindfulness to reduce stress, and trauma-focused tools for people who have been harmed. Sessions emphasize clear strategies and simple steps you can try right away. Clients can expect straightforward talk, skill-building, and steady support when problems resurface.
Brenda pays attention to cultural and multicultural concerns and helps people process grief, anger, jealousy, and prejudice-related stress. She also assists those managing bipolar symptoms and seasonal mood shifts. If someone wants to begin, Brenda guides them through the first steps and helps set achievable goals.
Her style is practical and compassionate, aimed at helping people find calmer, more manageable ways to handle daily life.
Online approaches that match your needs
Brenda uses cognitive behavioral work to help people notice and change patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and habit changes because it focuses on clear steps and homework you can try between sessions.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy tools to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication skills. DBT skills are practical when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone struggles with intense reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brenda collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, cultural background, and daily life. She listens to what has or hasn’t worked before and adjusts the plan so it feels useful and doable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins, notes about progress, or more frequent support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between visits.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English, Spanish