About Brian
Brian Lux is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with two decades of experience across residential programs, community mental health, and independent practice in Illinois. He aims to help people who feel stuck by drawing on their existing strengths, talents, and past successes to create practical paths forward.
Background and approach
His work balances attentive listening with a hopeful, forward-looking stance that emphasizes growth and positive change. He blends a strengths-based, solution-oriented framework with elements of mindfulness and narrative therapy, and often brings gentle humor into sessions to ease tension.
Brian values the emotional realities clients bring - hurt, loss, disappointment, and woundedness - while maintaining optimism about healing. He also notes that spirituality is a personal resource for him and may appear naturally in conversation, though he does not impose those beliefs.
Brian accepts clients who are able to meet via English-language services and offers both domestic and international availability.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Access
Brian often integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy into his work. ACT helps people clarify personal values and take committed action despite difficult thoughts or feelings, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and living with chronic pain. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an empathic, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and supports clients as they find their own solutions, helpful for issues like relationship difficulties, self esteem, and grief.Finding the right approach is collaborative. He will work with each client to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, adapting techniques over time as progress and priorities evolve. This shared decision-making helps tailor sessions to what matters most to the person seeking help.
Online sessions provide flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule or to connect across distances. Licensed professionals can use these formats to maintain continuity of care and offer consistent support while accommodating varied communication styles and access needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English