About Brittany
Brittany Vaughn helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or major life changes. She meets people who are coping with trauma, low self-esteem, relationship strain, parenting challenges, or mood concerns like depression and bipolar symptoms. Brittany writes plainly and works to make sessions clear and practical for busy lives.
Brittany earned a Bachelor of Social Work in 2012 and a Master of Social Work in 2014. She holds an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and has practiced for 12 years in Illinois.
Background and approach
Early career roles included residential therapy for adolescents with significant trauma and school-based therapy in Williamson County. More recently she provided outpatient therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. In sessions she focuses on concrete goals and small, doable steps.
Brittany draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to manage intense feelings. She blends mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people notice what matters and stay motivated to change.
This approach is useful for coping with panic and anxiety, breaking unhelpful patterns, and recovering from abuse or loss. Brittany aims to make therapy fit daily life. She helps parents handle the stress of raising children, people facing career or purpose questions, and those managing attention or impulse challenges.
Her background in different settings informs a practical, down-to-earth way of working together.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Brittany integrates client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy into online sessions. Client-centered work means the therapist listens closely and follows the concerns you bring, helping you set goals that matter. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy offers concrete tools for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Brittany collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She may try different tools over time and checks in regularly to see what helps most.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video works well when a fuller conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, skill practice, or people who prefer writing. These options help therapy fit into work, parenting, or other daily demands while keeping sessions focused and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English