About Brian
Brian Ellis is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor working in Florida. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. He also supports people dealing with addiction and the practical struggles that follow loss and illness.
He aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about painful memories and everyday worries. He draws on his own experience with therapy to stay empathetic and grounded.
Background and approach
His military background informs a direct, mission-focused mindset when that approach fits a client's needs. Brian favors an integrative style that blends techniques to match each person. That means sessions focus on the whole person - mental health, physical health, and spiritual concerns when relevant.
He chooses tools based on what helps an individual move forward rather than sticking to a single method. Sessions typically center on identifying immediate coping strategies and building longer-term skills. He works with clients to set clear, manageable goals and track small steps of progress.
Conversations cover practical problem solving as well as deeper patterns such as attachment or abandonment wounds. Brian has three years of clinical experience as an LMHC. He offers help to people who want direct, practical support for life transitions, trauma recovery, grief work, or improving day-to-day functioning.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Brian describes an integrative approach that blends evidence-based techniques to meet individual needs. That can mean borrowing methods from cognitive and skills-based therapies to help manage anxiety and stress, focusing on practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. He also uses trauma-informed techniques that slow the pace, help process difficult memories, and teach grounding skills for people affected by abuse or loss.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. He works with each person to learn what helps and then adapts methods over time. Clients set goals together with the therapist and they try different strategies until a good fit is found.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face-to-face for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue care during life transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English