Brenda Broadnax, LPC

Brenda Broadnax is an LPC who offers counseling in Virginia. She focuses on stress and anxiety along with depression, relationship strains, family concerns, and the impact of trauma and abuse. Her tone is warm and direct, and she aims to create a respectful space where people can begin practical work on what matters to them.

Brenda earned a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and holds a Texas Licensed Professional Counselor and Virginia Licensed Professional Counselor credential. Her career began in school-based day treatment, supporting students with emotional and behavioral challenges. She later worked in private practice and with county services, supporting people with a broad range of needs.

Over 23 years she has supported people facing mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, caregiving stress, communication problems, and attachment or abandonment issues. She has also worked with those affected by domestic violence, homelessness, and human trafficking, and with people managing neurodevelopmental or personality-related concerns.

Her style is interactive and nonjudgmental. Sessions tend to mix practical tools with mindfulness and skills training. Brenda draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based views, and client-centered listening to match the work to the person.

She invites people to reach out when they are ready to make changes. Clients are guided to notice strengths they already have and to build new skills in manageable steps.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions that match those values. It uses simple exercises to notice thoughts and keep moving toward chosen goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new ways of behaving to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. It often includes practical homework and step-by-step skill practice. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people develop safer, more dependable ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each client about their goals and preferences and then shape sessions using one or more of these methods. That collaboration helps people try techniques that fit their situation rather than following a single fixed method.

Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports using worksheets, mindfulness practices, and skills coaching between meetings so people can build new habits in everyday settings.