About Brandon
Brandon Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Indiana who helps people work through anxiety, stress, depression, relationship concerns, and low self-esteem. He speaks plainly and keeps sessions focused on practical steps and emotional understanding. He approaches therapy as a partnership and aims to make the process approachable for someone taking the first step.
Brandon draws on six years of clinical experience to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Some meetings focus on skill-building for coping with strong emotions. Other visits create space to reflect on patterns, attachment, and past hurt so new choices become possible. He uses familiar, evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior strategies to manage intense feelings.
Client-centered work guides conversations so the client’s goals lead the pace and focus of therapy. Brandon also works with concerns like grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, career stress, and compassion fatigue. He pays attention to issues tied to abandonment, guilt and shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
His style aims to be calm, compassionate, and straightforward. Sessions may include short-term problem solving or longer exploration depending on what someone wants. Brandon believes change is possible with steady effort, and he offers supportive, goal-focused assistance as people make those steps.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals and experience at the center of each session. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what matters to the client, and follows their lead so the work feels relevant and manageable.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking. It pairs practical exercises with simple habits to reduce anxiety and lift mood over time.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for handling strong emotions and improving relationships. It is useful when someone struggles with intense mood swings, anger, or feeling easily overwhelmed.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Brandon will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and he will adjust course as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different days and routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging work well for short updates, skill practice, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English