Dr. Brandi Treadway, LMFT

Dr. Brandi Treadway is a Tennessee-based licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people handle stress and anxiety while navigating relationships and life transitions. Her approach centers on listening closely and partnering with each person to find practical ways forward.

She draws on client-centered methods to make space for a person’s story and priorities. Cognitive behavioral ideas are used to spot patterns that keep stress and low mood in place and to try different responses. Emotionally-focused work helps people understand and shift patterns that get in the way of close connection.

Dr. Treadway pays attention to how culture, identity, and life context shape struggles like burnout, compassion fatigue, or discrimination. She supports people dealing with family conflict, attachment wounds, and blending households, and she addresses concerns such as self-esteem, body image, and career stress. Her work also includes mood disorders, ADHD-related challenges, and intimacy or communication problems.

In sessions she helps people build coping skills, strengthen self-regard, and improve communication. She uses mindfulness and narrative techniques to help clients notice their inner experience and rewrite unhelpful stories about themselves. The aim is concrete change you can use between sessions.

People who are looking for collaborative, culturally aware care and practical strategies for stress, anxiety, and relationship challenges will find this therapist’s style direct yet empathetic. The first step is a brief matching process to connect with her practice.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Client-centered therapy places the client’s experience at the center of the work and focuses on empathic listening and collaboration to clarify goals and priorities. This approach helps when someone feels stuck and needs a steady, understanding presence to sort through feelings and choices.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and introduces experiments and small practice steps to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It is useful for stress, mood disorders, and for changing unhelpful reaction patterns that affect daily life.

Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) concentrates on how people respond emotionally in close relationships and helps shift interaction patterns that create distance or conflict. It can be helpful for improving communication and building stronger connections with partners or family members.

Choosing the right approach is often part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting the focus as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so therapy is more practical for work and family commitments. Ask about available formats when you complete the matching questionnaire.