About Brenda
Brenda Sallee helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and issues with self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, eating issues, and career or parenting stress.
Background and approach
Brenda is a licensed marriage and family therapist - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) - practicing in Florida with ten years of experience. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters to the client.
Brenda listens first, then helps people set clear goals and practice new ways of coping. Sessions often include talking through difficult moments, learning tools for emotion regulation, and trying small changes between meetings.
Her approach draws on several methods including client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses narrative ideas and Internal Family Systems concepts to help people make sense of painful patterns and shift how they relate to themselves.
These methods are used in simple, practical ways rather than as labels. Brenda has worked with a wide range of concerns for a decade.
She focuses on helping people repair communication problems, manage grief and loss, address codependency, and find steadier footing after big life changes. The work aims to build realistic skills for day-to-day life.
Clients work by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Meetings are scheduled after completing a short matching questionnaire and choosing a time that fits the client's needs.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Brenda often uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on attentive listening and helping people feel heard, which helps when sorting through grief, shame, or relationship worries. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. DBT skills teach practical strategies for handling strong feelings, improving interactions, and preventing impulsive actions in stressful moments. Together these approaches give a mix of listening, skill-building, and reframing problems as manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process where the client’s preferences guide choices about techniques and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video suits deeper conversations and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep work moving forward without large schedule changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English