Brittany Burke, LCSW

Brittany Burke is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience who uses practical, skills-based approaches to help people manage strong emotions and life stressors. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and DBT-influenced strategies to offer clear, step-by-step ways to cope. Brittany works with adults in Missouri and holds an LCSW credential.

Brittany focuses on everyday problems that make life feel overwhelming. Common concerns she addresses include anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep troubles, substance use, anger, and challenges around self-esteem and career changes. She also helps people dealing with chronic illness, communication struggles, impulsivity, isolation, and complicated family issues.

In sessions she uses active listening and validation to build a respectful, nonjudgmental space. Together the therapist and client set concrete goals and practice skills that can be used between meetings. Exercises may include identifying unhelpful thoughts, building emotion regulation tools, and creating small behavior changes that add up.

Brittany also brings experience supporting people connected to the criminal justice system and those facing legal concerns. That background informs practical problem-solving and planning during therapy. Her approach aims to make day-to-day life more manageable.

To begin, she asks clients to talk about what brought them to therapy and collaborates on a tailored plan. Sessions are conversational but focused on skills that lead to steady progress over time.

How these approaches translate to online care

CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and shifting small behaviors to improve daily functioning. Online sessions can include guided exercises, thought records, and homework that help reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms in concrete steps.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, listening-based relationship. In remote sessions this means the therapist reflects and validates a person's experience while helping them set their own goals. DBT offers practical emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for strong feelings and impulsive behavior, often taught through step-by-step practice and short skills coaching.

Choosing which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy with video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skills demonstrations. Phone works when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing skill practice between sessions.