Brandi Ellis, LMFT

Brandi Ellis is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone worried about reaching out. Brandi works from a strengths-based view and treats clients as the experts in their own lives.

Brandi uses practical, evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral therapy to break problems into small, usable steps. She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people identify values and act on them, and attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape current patterns. Sessions typically focus on clear skills, real-life practice, and steady progress.

With 12 years of experience and a California LMFT credential, Brandi has supported people through grief, trauma, addiction concerns, and major life transitions. She helps with intimate and sexual concerns, sleep and eating struggles, parenting stress, and workplace or career pressure. She is familiar with issues that overlap with ADHD, attachment injuries, and codependency.

Therapy sessions are collaborative. Brandi offers a mix of structured work and open conversation, depending on what each person needs. She helps clients set short-term goals and track changes between sessions.

Sessions are available in English and delivered online through multiple formats. Brandi can explain how therapy will work, what to expect, and what early steps look like for someone just starting out.

How Brandi’s Approaches Work Online

Brandi commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; CBT focuses on small, practical steps that reduce symptoms and build new routines. She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people clarify what matters to them and take meaningful action even when feelings are difficult. Attachment-based ideas appear in her work to help identify how past relationships shape current ways of relating and to build healthier patterns.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process. Brandi works collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients and therapist decide together what to try and how to measure small wins between sessions.

Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support quick coaching, between-session homework, or ongoing encouragement. These options offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels with remote care.