About Brenda
Brenda Amundson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family tensions. She draws on 33 years of professional experience and aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable. Brenda encourages honest talk and a nonjudgmental space for sharing difficult feelings.
She supports people coping with addictions, grief, intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, and career stress. Brenda also works with clients facing bipolar mood patterns and major life changes.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include first responder issues, HIV/AIDS, hoarding, and hospice and end-of-life counseling. Brenda’s style is straightforward and supportive. Sessions focus on practical ways to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve daily functioning.
She helps people name what’s happening, try new ways of responding, and build small habits that add up. Over her career she has worked in a range of settings in Massachusetts and has guided people through both sudden losses and long-term struggles. She emphasizes steady, compassionate attention rather than quick fixes.
Brenda sees progress as a gradual process that grows from consistent effort. Her approach centers on collaboration. She listens first, then helps people set realistic goals and choose manageable steps.
The tone in sessions is calm and encouraging, with space for honest conversation and real planning.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used to shape sessions in clear, understandable ways. One common approach focuses on learning practical skills to manage strong emotions and anxiety. This includes breathing and grounding exercises, simple behavior changes, and breaking problems into smaller, solvable steps to reduce overwhelm.Another approach helps people change unhelpful patterns in relationships and daily routines. That work is about noticing patterns, trying alternative responses, and practicing new habits that improve connection and functioning. These methods suit issues like relationship tensions, parenting strain, intimacy concerns, and coping with life transitions.
Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to concerns, discuss goals, and try approaches together to see what helps most. Clients take part in choosing what to try and adjust the plan over time based on what’s working.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversations without travel. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow short, timely exchanges and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to stay consistent with regular sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English