- Client-centered approach
- CBT techniques
- DBT skills
About Brandi
Brandi Horak is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 11 years of experience. She works with adults on problems like addiction, grief, depression, anxiety, and anger. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, and life changes.
Her sessions focus on practical conversation. She listens, asks direct questions, and helps people notice patterns in their thoughts and behaviors. She uses approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to offer concrete tools for managing strong feelings.
Brandi has experience addressing trauma, abuse, and PTSD alongside mood disorders and adjustment challenges. She also assists folks navigating LGBT concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and complicated family dynamics. Her background includes work with people who struggle with attention difficulties, self-esteem, and codependency.
In a typical session she helps a person identify triggers, test different responses, and practice new ways of handling anger or frustration. She may suggest brief exercises between sessions to build coping skills and improve communication. The focus is on what works day to day rather than abstract theory.
Sessions are offered in English. She accepts international clients and can work with a range of life stages and concerns. To start, a reader should follow the online intake steps and schedule an initial session to see how the approach fits their situation.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the client. In practice this means sessions start by letting the person describe their problem and priorities while the therapist reflects and clarifies. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. CBT helps with anger by identifying triggers and testing new responses. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) adds practical skills for distress tolerance and emotion regulation. DBT skills are useful when emotions escalate and a person needs step-by-step strategies to calm down.Finding the right approach is often a process. The therapist will work with the client to decide which methods to use based on the client's goals and what works in early sessions. That collaboration helps shape a plan that focuses on useful skills and real-world practice.
The original biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, shorten travel time, and allow for brief check-ins when needed. Some formats use less bandwidth or do not require video, which can help on a work break or when a quick phone-style session is preferred. Licensed professionals adapt session length and tools to match everyday life and therapy goals.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
11+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of anger-related problems does she help with?
She helps with losing temper, building resentment, and difficulty managing frustration in relationships and at work.
How would she approach sessions?
She uses client-centered conversations alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and DBT skills to find practical ways to respond to anger.
How much experience does she have?
She has 11 years of professional work experience in mental health.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a Florida LMHC and practices while licensed in Florida.
Does she work in languages other than English or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original profile does not list specific session formats; confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.