Brenda Drake, LPC

Brenda Drake is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) with two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and trauma. She focuses on practical steps that people can use right away. She creates a calm, respectful space and listens closely to what matters most to each person.

Her background blends cognitive behavioral ideas with client-centered and skills-based methods like DBT. That mix helps people change unhelpful thoughts, build emotion regulation skills, and work toward clearer communication. Brenda aims to make goals concrete so progress is easier to notice.

She works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, grief, parenting strain, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and issues around self-esteem and body image. She also addresses more specific problems such as abandonment, attachment struggles, blended family stress, and caregiving burden. Her practice includes support for LGBT people and for those facing divorce or separation.

Brenda uses short-term, solution-focused strategies when that fits a person's needs, and longer-term work when people need deeper processing. Sessions include skill practice, goal setting, and a focus on everyday changes that reduce distress. She draws on the Gottman Method when relationship communication is a concern.

Based in Mississippi, Brenda speaks English and brings practical experience from many years of clinical work. She emphasizes collaboration and clear steps, helping people move from feeling stuck toward manageable change.

How Brenda’s Approaches Work Online

CBT helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes by teaching practical strategies and simple experiments to try between sessions.

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects feelings, and supports self-directed growth, which can help people who need space to make sense of their experience.

DBT provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes techniques for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication, which can be helpful when moods or anger feel overwhelming.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then tailor methods to fit the person's situation in a collaborative way.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy and skill practice, phone works when less bandwidth is available, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging lets people keep a running conversation or do shorter reflections between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days.