Meet Brittany (B.S., RMHCI)

Therapist | Author | Speaker | Researcher | Mama & Lover

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Welcome!

I am a Chicago native, currently residing in Jacksonville, Florida and as a mother, lover, speaker, connector, empath, deep critical thinker, and holistic truth seeker—I’m here to provide the support in navigating life’s transitions.

I am a Clinical Mental Health therapist, awaiting licensure summer 25’, who specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and integrates holistic techniques, combining somatic interventionsmind-body healing, and a soul-centered approach to help you heal from the inside out.

Through a combination of talk therapy and body-centered techniques, we’ll explore your past, present, and future to uncover the root causes of your symptoms, while empowering you with the tools you need to manage and overcome them.

Life will throw us unexpected curveballs—whether it's a major life transition, grief, anxiety, depression, or ongoing family conflict. Navigating these stressors can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to do it alone. My goal is to help you find peace and clarity on life, providing the tools and support you need to thrive.

The top issues I heal alongside my clients usually deal with anxiety, overthinking, work/life balance and burnout, relationships, parenthood and postpartum, self worth, esteem and confidence, trauma, healing childhood wounds, loneliness, self isolation, and spiritual misalignment. 

I believe in collaboration, so I don't "fix" you; I work with you. Your story matters, and I honor it with cultural compassion and real talk (minus the therapy jargon). Whether it's through CBT, DBT, EFT, tapping, or thought field therapy, I'll tailor our approach to you through a trauma informed lens and provide techniques and skills to master life outside of therapy.

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Which leads me to my why…

Looking back, my anxiety started around kindergarten/1st grade. My father was a single dad at the time, in the military raising me and my sister by himself. He would repeatedly forget to pick me up from school OR I was always the last one to be picked up. Once I correlated my biggest fear (being abandoned), to the end of school, thinking about the unknown every day was overwhelming and all consuming.

I graduated college in 2016 and that overwhelming and all consuming anxiety about the fear of “whats next?”, was back.

My anxiety was debilitating, causing my mind and body to become restless. Constant overthinking, the inability to make decisions, being on edge, and tense. I spent years feeling spiritually depleted, unfocused, spiraling out of control from intrusive thoughts and what ifs that felt never ending.

Anxiety isn’t just something you feel in your mind — it actually affects your whole body too.

Therapy helped untangle the lingering past traumas that haunted me, which allowed me to learn how I was still being impacted . The me that I became was the person I thought I should’ve always should’ve been. Confident, clear headed, at peace, aligned, and balance in all areas of my life.

From the life changing effects with my therapist who understood, nurtured, and created space for me to BE—I then vowed myself to the life work of helping heal those who struggle like I once did.

Staying the same is hard, and change is hard.

Which hard will you choose?

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