About Brytrina
Brytrina Perkins is an LCSW with a decade of clinical practice based in Illinois. She earned social work degrees with a specialty in mental health and substance use and has spent ten years supporting people facing addiction, trauma, mood concerns, and stress-related problems.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in gerontology and caregiver support, and she also brings training in cancer care and holistic approaches to her sessions. Perkins emphasizes practical, solution-focused work while attending closely to each person's strengths and experiences.
She integrates evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally-focused techniques, client-centered listening, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing to address problems like depression, anxiety, grief, anger, relationship struggles, and issues tied to substance use. Clients can expect a collaborative process that highlights skills-building, emotional understanding, and steps toward achievable change.
Her practice addresses a broad range of concerns including bipolar symptoms, self-esteem, coping with life changes, codependency, domestic violence, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and feelings of isolation or emptiness. Perkins accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English for those seeking flexible online formats.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate to online care
Perkins commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test practical behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. She also uses emotionally-focused therapy to explore relational feelings and attachment-related patterns, helping people gain new ways of connecting and responding in close relationships. Additionally, mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to build present-moment awareness and reduce stress responses.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic work and is decided collaboratively. The therapist and client will review concerns, goals, and preferences together and adjust methods over time so the treatment fits the client's needs and evolves as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it possible to receive consistent care from licensed professionals without needing to travel, and they allow skills practice and check-ins to continue between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English