About Brandi
Brandi Horak uses a client-centered approach and practical therapies to help people manage hard moments. She is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 11 years of experience. Brandi keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters most to each person.
She works with concerns like addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy issues. She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, anger, career questions, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Her list of interests includes body image, attachment difficulties, blended family challenges, and caregiving strain. Brandi adapts conversations and plans to match each person's needs. She uses client-centered listening alongside techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
Sessions aim to build clearer thinking, better coping skills, and calmer emotional responses. Her style is respectful and direct. She helps clients identify realistic goals and practical steps to reach them.
People can expect a mix of talking, skill practice, and problem-solving during sessions. Brandi offers several online formats so scheduling can fit into busy lives. She accepts clients in English and works with people nationally.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Brandi integrates client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping the work around each person's needs, which helps people feel heard and involved in decisions. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior; it is useful for depression, anxiety, and many everyday struggles. DBT adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships, helpful for mood swings, anger, and impulsive behavior.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That collaborative planning means techniques can be adjusted over time until they fit.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, and ongoing practice between full sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for work, caregiving, travel, and busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English