About Artrice
Artrice Brewer is an Illinois licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience helping people navigate difficult life transitions and emotional pain.
Background and approach
She draws on a depth of clinical work with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, family conflict, trauma, and abuse to guide clients toward clearer understanding and practical coping strategies. Her practice emphasizes respect for each person's perspective and the belief that people have strengths to build on as they heal.
Her approach blends collaborative listening with evidence-informed techniques to address both immediate symptoms and the underlying patterns that maintain them. Artrice pays attention to relational dynamics and attachment themes, and she often integrates mindfulness and cognitive tools to help clients manage intense emotions and rebuild a more stable sense of self.
She aims to create a thoughtful, goal-oriented process that helps clients move from feeling stuck toward more meaningful daily functioning and emotional balance.
Approach-driven online therapy for emotional and relational healing
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and collaboration so the client’s perspective shapes goals and the pace of work; it helps when people want a supportive space to explore values, identity, and relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replacing them with practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and improve emotional regulation. Trauma-focused therapy attends directly to the impact of traumatic experiences, using methods that help process difficult memories and reduce the ways trauma continues to affect daily life.Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative stance helps shape treatment plans and adjustments over time to keep progress aligned with what matters most to the client.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain consistency in care, access support from where a person is located in Illinois, and choose the format that fits daily life while working toward meaningful change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English