About Briana
Briana Henry is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 20 years in the mental health field. She offers straightforward, goal-focused help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life transitions.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and action-oriented to get results people can use in day-to-day life. Briana emphasizes short-term, goal-driven work that targets specific problems.
She helps people manage panic and mood symptoms, cope with postpartum changes, and refresh coping skills learned in past therapy. Sessions also cover workplace stress, parenting strain, relationship challenges, and questions about life purpose or finances.
Her style centers on listening carefully and helping people set clear, achievable goals. She draws on client-centered methods to understand each person’s experience and uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when those tools fit the problem.
Solution-focused techniques guide practical next steps between sessions. Briana has delivered care through telehealth for several years and tailors the format to what works best for each person.
She supports people who prefer brief, focused work as well as those who need help navigating a specific life event. Her practice is based in California and operates in English.
People who choose Briana can expect concise, collaborative sessions that aim to build useful skills and clearer next steps. She invites those ready to take an active role in change to begin with a simple matching and scheduling process.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Client-centered therapy begins with listening and following the person's priorities. The therapist focuses on understanding what matters to the client and shaping goals around their strengths and values. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings and clarify next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It offers concrete exercises and experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful thinking patterns. That can be useful for panic, depression, and work-related stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean combining client-centered listening with CBT or adding Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotion regulation is a focus.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people read facial cues and use screen-shared worksheets. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer short check-ins, skill practice, and flexible communication outside scheduled calls. These options support consistent progress and make it simpler to use therapy during work breaks, parenting times, or while managing a tight schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English