Therapist profile
Brenda Roberts Moosa, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor - Family and parenting focus
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- Stress and anxiety
- Parenting support
- Mindfulness and DBT
About Brenda
Brenda Roberts Moosa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 23 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, and trauma and abuse. Her practice also addresses concerns related to LGBT issues, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
Brenda uses a mix of client-centered methods and psychodynamic ideas to guide sessions. She listens for the practical problems behind the feelings and helps people name what matters most. Conversations are interactive and often focus on clearer communication, coping skills, and small behavior changes that fit daily life.
When parenting or family worries are central, she helps adults sort through family of origin issues, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care concerns, and co-parenting after separation. She also works with people dealing with abandonment, caregiver stress, aging issues, autism-related concerns, and complicated grief.
Her approach draws on solution-focused work to identify immediate next steps. Mindfulness techniques and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) are used when learning emotion regulation or distress tolerance skills will help. Brenda balances these tools with longer-term psychodynamic reflection when exploring patterns that repeat over time.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and practical. Brenda helps clients set achievable goals, try new ways of relating at home, and track small changes. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy puts the client's perspective at the center. In practice this means the therapist asks open questions, reflects back what she hears, and helps people describe their priorities and goals. It is useful for relationship stress, parenting decisions, grief, and life transitions.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, focuses on learning concrete skills. Sessions may include work on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. These skills are practical when anxiety, intense emotions, or conflict at home make day-to-day life harder.
Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting swept away by them. Simple mindfulness exercises can be used to reduce reactivity and to strengthen attention during parenting tasks or difficult conversations.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively with the client to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can change as therapy progresses and new priorities emerge.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy home life, allow a shorter check-in during a break, or remove the need to travel. Licensed professionals often adapt exercises and skill practice to work over video or phone, and the therapist will discuss practical details when scheduling the first appointment.
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Experience
23+ years
Listed in
Virginia
Languages
English
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What kinds of problems does she work with?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, and LGBT related issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is interactive and respectful. She combines client-centered listening with solution-focused steps and psychodynamic reflection.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 23 years of experience as a counselor working with a range of adult concerns.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees structured?
Fees vary with location. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to start sessions?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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