- Warm interactive style
- Focus on coping skills
- Individualized plans
About Brenda
Brenda Blake is an LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor practicing in Ohio with 25 years of experience. She offers a warm, interactive style and aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, focused on helping people take the first steps toward clearer thinking and healthier routines.
Brenda combines cognitive-behavioral ideas with brief therapy, humanistic, and existential approaches. She uses these methods to tailor conversations and practical steps to each person's needs. Sessions typically focus on identifying unhelpful patterns, building coping skills, and setting small goals that fit daily life.
Areas she commonly supports include stress, anxiety, grief, anger, depression, coping with life changes, addictions, and issues around intimacy and relationships. Other concerns she addresses are parenting, self-esteem, career questions, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and sleep or eating struggles. She also works with topics such as body image, guilt and shame, forgiveness, isolation, and life purpose.
Over her career Brenda has worked with a wide range of people presenting varied concerns, including trauma and abuse, panic attacks, and compassion fatigue. Her style emphasizes collaboration and respect while tailoring a plan that reflects each person’s values and goals.
She invites people ready to make a change to begin a conversation and find a path forward together.
How Brenda’s Approaches Translate to Online Support
Brenda uses cognitive-behavioral methods and a brief therapy model that focus on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes. These approaches help with anxiety, panic, mood shifts, and improving daily routines by breaking problems into manageable steps.She also draws on humanistic and existential ideas that encourage reflection on values and meaning. This work helps people clarify what matters most, rebuild motivation, and address feelings of isolation or life-purpose concerns.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, then shape a plan that mixes practical skill-building with reflective conversations. Clients and the therapist check progress and adjust methods as needed.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule, avoid travel time, and use shorter check-ins when needed. It can also allow sessions during a work break or from a quieter spot, helping therapy fit into everyday life without needing long commutes.
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Experience
25+ years
Listed in
Ohio
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does Brenda help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, addictions, and coping with life changes. Other areas include parenting, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, and self-esteem concerns.
What is her general approach to therapy?
The style is warm and interactive, combining cognitive-behavioral ideas with brief therapy, humanistic, and existential perspectives. Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer thinking, and setting small achievable goals.
How much experience does she have?
She has worked in counseling for 25 years, supporting people with a wide range of concerns from mood and anxiety to trauma and relationship struggles.
Where does Brenda practice and what are her credentials?
She is an LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Ohio. Her listed location for practice is Ohio.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; sessions are provided to people within the therapist's accepted region.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin working together?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to the therapist's availability.