Brandi Scott, LMFT

Brandi Scott is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, anger, and depression. She listens closely and focuses on what feels most important to each person. Her work emphasizes practical tools and steady support so people can feel more capable day to day.

Brandi uses approaches that help clients change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors while also noticing emotions in the moment. She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered listening to tailor sessions to individual needs. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices are added when people need skills for emotion regulation and grounding.

Sessions are plainspoken and goal oriented. Brandi helps people break problems into manageable steps and try out new coping skills between sessions. She pays attention to patterns that show up in relationships and sense of self, and she helps people build healthier ways of relating and reacting.

Over her career she has supported people through separation, caregiving strain, feelings of abandonment, body image struggles, guilt and shame, and panic attacks. She also works with issues like isolation, impulsivity, and social anxiety. Brandi is based in California and conducts therapy in English.

Her approach is collaborative: she and the client decide what to work on together. Brandi describes therapy as a mix of respectful listening, skill teaching, and practical homework to help people make steady progress.

How her approach translates to online therapy

Brandi often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. Client-centered work emphasizes listening, validation, and shaping the pace to match what a person needs in the moment.

She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy when teaching emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. DBT skills help people manage intense emotions, reduce impulsive actions, and handle conflict more effectively.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Brandi works collaboratively with each person to choose which methods to try based on goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan if something isn’t working or needs to change.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits brief check-ins, and messaging lets people send notes between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.