Vanessa Broughton, LPC-MH

Vanessa Broughton is a licensed professional counselor - mental health (LPC-MH) with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and self-esteem struggles. Her work also includes support for addiction concerns, grief, bipolar challenges, and navigating life changes.

Vanessa uses CBT as a core method to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered approaches to help people build practical skills while staying connected to their values. Sessions are conversational and aimed at making small, useful changes people can use day to day.

She pays attention to workplace strain, caregiver stress, and issues that often follow family of origin conflicts. Vanessa helps with communication problems, control issues, and questions about life purpose. She also supports people facing postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder, and challenges common in young adulthood.

People can expect straightforward, collaborative sessions that focus on skills and problem solving. Vanessa integrates elements of dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused methods when those tools fit a person’s goals. Her practice emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes.

Vanessa practices in Delaware and conducts sessions in English. Her background and approach are practical and goal-oriented, aimed at helping people find clearer ways forward.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Vanessa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms, making it useful for stress, low mood, and workplace difficulties. ACT helps people clarify values and take committed action, which can be helpful for life transitions, burnout, and ongoing struggles like ADHD or compassion fatigue.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients shape the work together with the therapist rather than following a fixed path.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skill practice and emotional work. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins or a way to share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same therapeutic tools you would in person.