Brenda Broadnax, LPC

Brenda Broadnax is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Virginia with 23 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, depression, and trauma and abuse. Brenda commonly helps people dealing with parenting strain, communication problems at home, and the emotional aftermath of past trauma.

She began her career providing therapeutic day treatment in public schools, supporting students with emotional and behavioral needs. Her background includes private practice work with children, adolescents, adults, and their caregivers. She has also worked in county services and community settings with people facing severe mental health challenges and complex social needs.

Brenda’s style is interactive and respectful. She listens, asks practical questions, and works with people to identify what they can try between sessions. Sessions tend to include straightforward skills practice and reflective discussion rather than long theoretical explanations.

Her approach draws on several evidence-based methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and client-centered techniques. She uses these methods to address mood symptoms, relationship patterns, parenting challenges, and trauma responses.

People who bring concerns about adoption, foster care, caregiver stress, domestic violence, attachment issues, or post-traumatic stress will find ways to address those problems in short, concrete steps. To begin, Brenda asks about current struggles, what has helped before, and practical goals for life at home.

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