About Lanette
Lanette Bryant is a licensed clinical social worker in Maine with four years of professional experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, substance use concerns, mood disorders, trauma, and related struggles. Lanette aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful for each person who reaches out.
She creates a straightforward, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about hard things. Sessions are meant to be a place to sort thoughts, name feelings, and try small changes that make life easier.
Background and approach
Lanette uses clear techniques and everyday language so the work feels useful and down-to-earth. Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive and skills-based methods. That means listening first, then helping people test new ways of coping and thinking.
She often combines problem-focused strategies with skills for managing intense emotions and urges. Lanette has particular experience supporting people with addiction and substance-related issues, grief and loss, anger, trauma and abuse, and mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder. She also addresses concerns that can come with attachment difficulties, co-occurring conditions, and identity-related stress for LGBT people.
If someone is unsure where to begin, she helps set small goals and checks in on what works. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, with steps chosen to fit each person’s life and needs.
Practical approaches for online care
Lanette uses client-centered methods that begin with listening and understanding each person’s priorities. This approach focuses on the person’s experience and goals, helping set steps that feel relevant and doable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches specific skills for managing strong emotions and reducing impulsive actions, which can be helpful for mood instability and self-destructive patterns.Finding the best approach is collaborative. She will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean combining listening-based support with CBT exercises or DBT skills practice over time, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing, need frequent brief check-ins, or want hands-on skill reminders between sessions. These options make it possible to fit therapy into busy weeks and to use the format that feels most helpful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English