Dr. Audrey Berdeski, LPC

Dr. Audrey Berdeski is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan with 15 years of clinical experience. She shifted careers from chiropractic care to counseling and now focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She brings a direct and compassionate approach to conversations about difficult life events.

Her sessions tend to be warm and interactive, with an emphasis on respect and sensitivity. She avoids stigmatizing labels and works with each person to set practical goals. Dr. Berdeski adapts the pace and focus of sessions to match what the client needs in the moment.

She commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside existential and psychodynamic perspectives to uncover patterns and test new ways of thinking. She also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to build coping skills and short-term progress. These methods are blended into a plan that matches a person’s goals and daily life.

Dr. Berdeski has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, family conflict, and challenges related to aging and caregiving. She also supports people dealing with codependency, midlife transitions, infidelity, and financial stress. Her broad experience helps her tailor sessions to many kinds of problems.

Sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Messaging between sessions is used regularly. People who want to begin follow the platform’s Start Therapy flow to match and schedule their first session.

How online sessions use cognitive and existential approaches

Dr. Berdeski commonly blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Existential Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Existential therapy helps people look at meaning, choices, and values when facing life changes or grief.

She also draws on mindfulness techniques to teach simple skills for staying present and lowering reactivity. Each approach is explained in plain terms and adapted to the person’s goals so that therapy feels useful rather than abstract. Deciding which mix of approaches to use is a collaborative process that happens over the first few sessions.

The online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a short break or lower bandwidth situations, live chat provides a quick back-and-forth option, and text messaging supports brief check-ins and practice between meetings. These options give flexibility to fit schedules, energy levels, and different communication preferences.