About Brendeen
Brendeen Longoria-Spencer is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience. She practices from Utah and speaks English. Her work focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, and life changes.
Over two decades she has supported people facing loss, major transitions, and relationship strain. She draws on practical problem-solving, parts work, systemic ideas, and cognitive methods to create straightforward plans clients can try between sessions. Sessions emphasize identifying strengths, clarifying values, and taking small, doable steps toward goals.
Background and approach
Her approach tends to be down-to-earth and goal-oriented. She helps clients talk through difficult feelings, sort conflicting parts of themselves, and rebuild confidence after setbacks. Conversations focus on what is most pressing and on skills that can reduce distress in daily life.
Brendeen also helps people facing challenges like abandonment or attachment concerns, body image struggles, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and financial strain. She addresses communication problems, control issues, divorce or separation, and feelings of guilt or shame when they come up. People who prefer practical, collaborative work often find her style useful.
She aims to tailor each plan to the person’s life, values, and pace. If someone wants clear steps and steady support through change, her sessions are set up to provide that.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Brendeen commonly uses cognitive techniques and parts-oriented work explained in plain terms. Cognitive methods help people notice patterns of thinking that increase stress or anxiety and then practice new ways of responding. Parts-oriented work helps separate conflicting feelings or impulses so each part can be understood and managed more easily.She also draws on systemic ideas to look at relationship patterns and how communication or roles influence stress. That perspective can be useful for people wanting clearer boundaries, better communication skills, or a plan to manage change. Choosing the right mix of methods is a joint process - the therapist and client review what’s working and adjust as goals evolve.
Online therapy makes those approaches flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are available for brief updates, between-session coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the work practical and goal-focused.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, Utah
- Languages
- English