Clinical Approach
Brandi uses an integrative, trauma-informed approach. She distinguishes between coping with anxiety and understanding what may be driving it. Although coping skills can reduce immediate symptoms, deeper therapy explores what is underneath. There may be trauma, uncertainty, difficult relationships, or patterns that once helped a client survive but no longer serve them.
Her work commonly draws from:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- EMDR — trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
- Grounding and sensory-based coping skills
- Somatic and body-awareness strategies
DBT skills are especially useful in Brandi’s emotional-regulation work. She helps clients increase awareness of emotions, practice coping strategies, and notice how changes in emotional regulation can also change behavior.
Beyond the Clinical: Walk and Talk Therapy
Walk and talk therapy is an outdoor counseling session where you and your clinician walk side by side on a pre-planned route.
Movement and a changing landscape do something measurable to the nervous system that makes the clinical work more accessible, particularly for clients managing sensory overwhelm, trauma, avoidance, or the exhaustion of masking in traditional settings.
For Brandi, walk and talk is a natural extension of her somatic anxiety work. When the physical symptoms of anxiety show up, she believes the therapy should work with the body and the mind. Walk and talk offers that.
Brandi offers two formats:
If you need to get up and outside to clear your mind, Brandi’s happy to meet you outside. Learn more about walk and talk therapy.
Perspective and Lived Experience
Brandi brings both clinical training and lived experience to her work. Her own experience with therapy and personal healing showed her that meaningful change is possible, even when someone has reached a point where they are unsure whether life can improve.
She is open with clients when a relevant lived experience may help them feel less alone, while keeping the focus on their needs and their story. She also brings a simple, accepting energy into her work. One phrase she often uses is, “No worries.” For Brandi, that means life happens, plans change, mistakes happen, and therapy can adjust without shame.
Affirming and Inclusive Care
Brandi’s commitment to LGBTQIA+ affirming and BIPOC allied care is both personal and central to why she chose True You Always. When she does not understand part of a client’s identity or lived experience, Brandi doesn’t pretend that she does. She asks questions, seeks consultation, reads, and works to gain the understanding necessary to treat the whole person with respect.
Training and Professional Background
Brandi earned her Master of Social Work from Capella University in 2023. Her graduate training included a year of one-on-one counseling with survivors and victims of domestic violence through a nonprofit organization, followed by a clinical internship with True You Always. She remained with the practice after graduation and now serves as both a clinician and Wellness Operations Manager.
Her earlier background also includes work with at-risk youth in Brevard County Schools, where she supported emotional, physical, and social development and helped strengthen self-esteem and self-worth.
The combination of therapy, advocacy, youth support, and operational leadership gives Brandi a practical and grounded perspective she brings to her sessions.
