About Brandy
Brandy Terry holds a Master’s degree in Mental Health/Mental Health Counseling and practices as a licensed mental health counselor in Utah. She brings 12 years of experience in the mental health field and focuses on building a calm, steady space where people can begin to make changes.
Brandy aims for honest, empathetic conversations that help a person decide what they want to change and how to get there. Over her career she has worked a lot with trauma and substance use concerns, and has developed skills in attachment and family dynamics.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing grief, loss, and life transitions. Her approach is grounded in compassion and straightforward feedback so clients can see practical ways forward. Brandy uses approaches that include attachment-based work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior strategies, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.
She explains tools clearly and practices them with people at a pace that feels manageable. She runs a parenting group in her community and draws energy from helping others, her dog Coda, and creative projects. Brandy grew up in Utah and has experience with both participation in and distance from the LDS church, which helps her understand a range of cultural perspectives.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She works with each person to set goals and use methods that fit their situation and preferences.
How Brandy’s Approaches Work Online
Brandy uses attachment-based work to help people understand patterns in relationships and how early bonds influence present feelings. That work can help with trust issues, grief tied to separation, and improving closeness in current relationships.She also uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and reflecting so the person sets the pace and goals. This approach is useful when someone needs a nonjudgmental place to sort out decisions or make big life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Brandy discusses options with each person and together they decide which methods match the client’s needs and preferences. She adapts tools and pacing so therapy fits into daily life and meets real goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and practicing skills together. Phone sessions may be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text let people message between sessions and fit support into busy schedules. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and flexible around work, caregiving, and other obligations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English