About Bree
Bree May is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington with 20 years in the helping field. She brings a practical, person-centered style and pays attention to each person’s history and relationships. Bree aims to make the first steps toward therapy feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
Bree uses outcome-focused and client-centered methods to address stress, anxiety, anger, and low self-esteem. She also helps people cope with life transitions, separation or divorce, and mood difficulties.
Background and approach
Sessions can range from behavior-focused problem solving to conversations that include spiritual or existential themes, depending on what a person prefers. Her background includes two decades working with adults on communication problems, attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, and feelings of isolation. Bree offers practical tools for panic and impulsivity as well as reflective work around guilt, shame, and forgiveness.
She emphasizes clear, doable steps alongside deeper self-reflection. In sessions Bree creates an open space where people can say what’s on their mind without judgment. She listens for patterns in relationships, control issues, and life purpose questions, then helps build manageable changes.
Her approach is direct but empathetic, aiming for progress that fits each person’s life. Clients can expect collaborative goal-setting and a mix of short-term strategies and longer exploration when that feels right. Bree supports people who want relief from specific symptoms and those who want to develop a more satisfying day-to-day life.
Practical approaches for online emotional support
Bree draws on client-centered work that focuses on a person’s goals and strengths. This approach involves listening closely to how relationships and personal history shape current struggles and then setting small, achievable steps to move forward.She also uses outcome-focused and behavioral techniques that focus on specific symptoms and patterns. These methods offer clear tools for anxiety, panic attacks, impulsivity, and anger by practicing different skills and tracking progress over time.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Bree will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend a mix of strategies. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to practical results or deeper exploration as desired.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and emotional work, phone calls can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins and ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life while working toward meaningful change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English