About Brytrina
Brytrina Perkins brings ten years of social work practice to her therapy work. She earned her social work degrees from Loyola University and holds an LCSW license in Illinois. Brytrina focuses on practical support and steady listening for people facing addiction, trauma, mood and anxiety concerns, relationship strain, grief, and major life changes.
She blends straightforward care with tools that clients can use between sessions. Sessions often focus on clear steps, coping skills, and building on existing strengths.
Background and approach
Brytrina also uses motivational strategies to help people move through ambivalence about change. Her background includes work with older adults, caregiver stress, and people affected by cancer or end-of-life issues. She has experience addressing codependency, domestic violence, and substance use challenges, alongside emotional struggles like guilt, emptiness, and grief.
Brytrina uses a mix of client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral ideas, emotionally focused techniques, and mindfulness practices. This combination allows her to respond to symptoms like anxiety or depression and to underlying relational patterns that keep problems repeating. Clients can expect a calm, practical approach that focuses on solutions and safety.
Brytrina helps people set realistic goals, practice new ways of coping, and notice gradual progress. She accepts international clients and offers sessions in English from her Illinois practice.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's goals and experiences. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the person, which helps when addressing issues like grief, self-esteem, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with more effective patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, anger, and coping with stress because it offers clear skills that can be practiced between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and change patterns in close relationships and in how they manage strong emotions. It can be useful for relationship strain, for managing intense reactions, and for reducing recurring cycles of hurt.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods as needed. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to try first and how to adjust them over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone talks, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging allows brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English