About Raven
Raven Brown-McKinney is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She works with adults on concerns like self-esteem, career decisions, parenting stress, and grief. Her tone is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at people who need straightforward help getting unstuck.
Raven draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are used to reduce reactivity and bring attention back to the present moment. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take action toward what matters to them. Sessions are meant to be collaborative, with concrete steps between meetings.
Clients can expect a plan that focuses on small, achievable changes. Raven's background includes six years working as a clinician and social worker. She holds the credential LICSW, which indicates Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, and also lists LCSW.
Her practice reflects experience with crisis intervention, domestic violence support, and caregiving stress. Sessions may include coaching-style conversations as well as therapy skills practice. Raven aims to help people handle emotional pain, improve relationships, manage mood symptoms such as bipolar or panic, and find clearer direction in work and life.
She practices from Texas and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Raven frequently draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, value-driven steps even when feelings are hard. This approach is useful for stress, life changes, and problems that involve avoidance.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and to practice concrete behavior changes. CBT is helpful for anxiety, depression, panic, and learning better coping habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then suggest techniques to try. This is a collaborative process with room to adjust methods as needs evolve.
Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible. Video calls let a therapist and client talk face-to-face for deeper conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing support between sessions. These options help fit therapy into a busy life and make it easier to keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Alabama, Oregon, Louisiana
- Languages
- English