About Brittany
Brittany Vaughn welcomes people coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, or transitions and helps them define clear goals for change. She emphasizes practical steps to lessen day-to-day distress and supports clients in processing traumatic events regardless of when they occurred.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses self-esteem, relationship concerns, career stress, ADHD, eating and anger issues, and a broad range of life adjustments and behavioral concerns. Vaughn brings 12 years of clinical experience and an LCSW license to her practice in Illinois.
She earned a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Social Work from Southern Illinois University, then built a background working with adolescents who had experienced significant trauma in residential care and providing school-based therapy in Williamson County. More recently she has treated children, adolescents, and adults in outpatient settings.
Her approach blends client-centered care with evidence-informed techniques to help clients move toward meaningful change and improved daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and skill building
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration, allowing clients to set goals and feel understood while a therapist provides empathy and support to help clarify values and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaching practical skills to change patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, or stress. Dialectical behavior therapy adds structured skill training in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for managing intense emotions and improving relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work and the therapist guides that process collaboratively. She will explore a client's needs, goals, and preferences and combine elements from these methods to create a personalized plan rather than relying on a single technique.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility and fit around busy lives. These formats make it easier to attend regular sessions from home or work, practice new skills between meetings, and maintain continuity of care when schedules or locations change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English