About Brandi
Brandi Scott is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and anger.
Background and approach
Brandi listens closely and works with each person to find practical ways to feel steadier day to day. She uses straightforward methods to help people understand what keeps problems going.
That includes looking at thoughts and behaviors, learning skills to regulate intense emotions, and noticing how relationships shape feelings. Sessions move at a pace that fits the person’s needs and comfort.
Brandi often helps people handle painful losses, work through trauma and abuse, and reduce panic or social anxiety. She also addresses concerns like attachment wounds, body image, guilt, isolation, and communication problems.
Her approach aims to reduce distress and build reliable coping habits. In sessions she blends listening with skill teaching.
Clients learn tools they can use between meetings, such as breathing strategies, thought exercises, and grounding practices. She encourages small, realistic steps that add up over time.
People who choose her practice typically want calm, steady guidance and clear techniques. Brandi frames therapy as a collaborative process and adapts methods to each person.
She brings steady experience and a practical focus to help people feel more able to manage life’s emotional demands.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. The therapist reflects what’s said, helps people feel heard, and supports them in finding their own solutions. This approach helps when someone needs steady emotional support and clearer self-understanding.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is often used for anxiety, mood issues, panic, and worry-based problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness tools to reduce impulsivity and overwhelm.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, and then try methods that feel like a good fit. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress happens.
Online therapy makes it easier to connect consistently. Video calls let people practice skills together while seeing facial cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a quicker check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options offer flexibility to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English