About Brianna
Brianna Yates is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Illinois. She brings three years of professional counseling experience and prior work as a medical social worker and at a local domestic violence agency. Brianna focuses on listening, validating, and helping people find practical steps toward their goals.
She tailors sessions to each person’s needs and blends techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth, with attention to everyday challenges like stress, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns. Brianna works with career and self-esteem questions and helps people manage anxiety, depression, ADHD, and bipolar symptoms. She also offers coaching-style support for decision-making and career shifts.
For clients caring for others, she addresses caregiver stress and related burnout. Her background includes helping adults affected by domestic violence and supporting people with chronic health conditions through medical social work. That experience informs her approach to physical illness, chronic pain, and the emotional ripple effects of health changes.
Outside of work she is the eldest of four sisters and has an identical twin. She enjoys trying new recipes, walking, and watching shows. Brianna aims to make the therapy room easy to enter and focused on the next realistic step toward feeling better.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client guides the conversation and the therapist reflects and supports. This approach helps when someone needs to feel heard and to clarify their own goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thought and behavior patterns and teaches straightforward tools to change unhelpful reactions. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals, and preferences and suggest techniques that fit. Together they may blend approaches or try different tools until something feels useful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper exchange is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging works well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or ongoing written reflection. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English