About Brianna
Brianna Yates is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois with three years of professional experience.
Background and approach
She began her career working in medical social work supporting people with chronic health conditions and new medical concerns, and she has also provided therapy and education in a domestic violence agency. Her clinical background informs a strengths-based, compassionate approach that centers each person's lived experience.
She blends evidence-informed methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness with client-centered listening to tailor sessions to individual goals. Brianna emphasizes validation, collaborative goal-setting, and practical skills that help clients manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
Her areas of focus include relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep difficulties, parenting and caregiving stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue among other related issues. Clients can expect a warm, goal-oriented partnership that draws on problem-solving strategies and mindfulness practices to build coping skills and promote greater emotional balance.
Brianna aims to support changes in thinking and behavior while honoring each client’s priorities and pace.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, empathic relationship in which the therapist listens closely and follows the client's priorities to support growth and self-directed change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) emphasizes identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering concrete strategies for managing anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people explore and reorganize emotional responses in relationships to improve connection and reduce distress.Determining the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to clarify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, adapting methods over time so care aligns with evolving needs and progress.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility by allowing video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to maintain regular sessions, practice skills between appointments, and access support from home or work while working with licensed professionals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English