Brittany Stephen is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing relationship stress, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and LGBTQ concerns.
01About Brittany
Brittany Stephen is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing relationship stress, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and LGBTQ concerns. She approaches therapy with empathy and cultural awareness to create a calm place for honest conversation and practical change. Brittany uses a warm, affirming style that aims to make clients feel heard and respected.
Sessions focus on understanding patterns that cause pain and learning small, useful skills to manage emotions and improve connections.
Background and approach
She often blends talk-based work with creative methods when words alone do not fit. Her background includes nine years in the mental health field and training as a board-certified music therapist. That combination means she can offer traditional counseling alongside music-based tools for emotional processing, regulation, and self-expression.
Clients can expect options, not a single method. Brittany pays attention to culture, identity, and lived experience when forming a plan with each person. She supports exploration of attachment, abandonment, and commitment concerns, and helps people navigate body image, codependency, and communication problems.
Her approach attends to practical steps for day-to-day life, like coping with chronic illness, managing burnout, or finding steadier emotional responses. Sessions are held with a focus on collaboration and clear goals. People who want help with trauma recovery, relationship patterns, grief, or questions about identity will find straightforward care and creative options to support their work together.
02Credentials
- LPC (District of Columbia)
- License PRC200002138 · expires June 2026
- LPC (Georgia)
- License LPC013791 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1427757335 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Brittany lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
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04Online support
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used in straightforward, practical ways. One approach often used focuses on processing traumatic memories in manageable steps to reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. This helps people who have experienced trauma, dissociation, or intense emotional reactions find steadier ways to cope.A second approach leans on emotion-focused and attachment-informed work that looks at patterns in relationships and how past hurts affect current connections. That work helps with commitment concerns, abandonment fears, communication problems, and building healthier ways to relate.
The therapist treats choosing an approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try methods that fit. If creative options like music-based tools seem useful, those can be blended with talk work to support emotional regulation and expression.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing check-ins between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain consistent progress.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Brittany commonly address?
She supports people with LGBT issues, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, and self-esteem challenges, as well as related areas like attachment, body image, and codependency.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and affirming, with a collaborative approach that combines talk therapy and creative options to help clients make practical changes.
What is her professional background?
She brings nine years of experience in mental health and also holds board certification as a music therapist, which she integrates when helpful.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with licensure noted as GA LPC and DC LPC and practices from Georgia.
What languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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