About Brian
Brian Mandel is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. He works from a respectful, client-centered stance and aims to meet each person where they are. Brian holds LCSW licensure in Florida and the LCSW-R credential in New York.
He focuses on practical steps that fit daily life. Sessions often look at coping skills for panic, strategies to ease sleep and eating struggles, and ways to address addictions or low self-esteem.
Background and approach
He also supports people facing relationship or intimacy-related concerns and those wrestling with life changes. Brian draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and to try new, healthier habits. He also uses dialectical behavior therapy tools for managing intense emotions and mindfulness practices to build calm and present-moment awareness.
Emotionally focused ideas guide work on connection and attachment issues. Clients can expect a collaborative style that treats them as the expert on their life. The therapist helps set clear goals and tailors steps to each persons needs and preferences.
Progress is paced so change feels manageable rather than overwhelming. He offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and practices from Florida. Conversations take a straightforward tone and focus on skills people can use between sessions.
Brian aims to help people find steadier ground and clearer direction through everyday tools and steady support.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a collaborative relationship so the person feels heard and understood; this approach helps with motivation and figuring out what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and provides concrete exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers practical emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that can be practiced between sessions to manage intense feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust based on what feels most useful. Clients play an active role in choosing techniques and pacing the work so it fits their life and priorities.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New York
- Languages
- English