About Brittany
Brittany Schwarten is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 11 years of experience to her work. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and big life changes. She aims to give practical tools while keeping the person at the center of their own progress.
Brittany has worked in independent practice, school-based therapy services, and higher-level care settings. That range means she has supported people in short-term and longer-term work.
Background and approach
She has led DBT groups, social skills groups for children, and psychoeducation meetings for parents. Her style is direct and goal-oriented, balanced with empathy and listening. She will be honest about expectations and may challenge unhelpful patterns when that will help a person move forward.
Building trust is important to her and she works to create a nonjudgmental space where people can be seen beyond their problems. Brittany blends techniques from different approaches to meet each person’s needs. She focuses on whole-person care, offering resources that address mind, body, and wellbeing.
She also supports people dealing with issues such as abandonment, codependency, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and post-traumatic stress. People often seek her help for parenting stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, career questions, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and self-esteem struggles. Brittany aims to coach and guide while helping clients discover their own strengths.
She welcomes working with English-speaking clients from Wisconsin and beyond.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions let people look at relationship patterns and try new ways of relating in regular life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, and stress and adapts neatly to video or chat-based work.Brittany treats the choice of approach as a team decision. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit those aims. Together they will adjust the plan as needed rather than committing to one method up front.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill work that benefits from seeing facial cues. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is lower. Live chat or text messaging can support short updates, check-ins between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical change and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English