Brianne Bergstrom
I am an Independently Licensed Social Worker with over ten years of experience in the field of social work. Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of supporting individuals as they navigate trauma, major life transitions, grief, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. I am trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Integrated Treatment for Complex Trauma, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). I draw from these evidence-based approaches to provide thoughtful, individualized care that is grounded in both skill-building and deep emotional processing. My experience across diverse settings has strengthened my commitment to meeting clients with compassion, clinical skill, and a genuine belief in their capacity for growth and healing.
First session
During our first session, we will spend time exploring how you decided to seek therapy at this point in your life. I’ll ask thoughtful questions about your past and current experiences to better understand your story and the context surrounding what you’re going through. We will also talk about what you’ve been experiencing internally, your thoughts, emotions, and reactions, and how these may be affecting your daily life, relationships, and overall well-being. We will close our time together by discussing your goals, hopes, and intentions for therapy. This first session is an opportunity for us to begin building a collaborative relationship and to ensure you feel heard, understood, and supported as we move forward.
Strengths
I am a strengths-based therapist who believes that every person already holds resilience, wisdom, and the capacity for growth within them. My role is to help you recognize and build on those strengths while supporting you through the challenges that bring you to therapy. I meet clients where they are, honoring your pace, your readiness, and your unique lived experience. I understand that each person has many parts that include different emotions, roles, and internal experiences that all deserve care and curiosity. I also recognize that we are deeply shaped by the systems we are part of, including family, culture, community, and broader social structures. These systems can both support and impact us in complex ways. I strive to understand each person in the way they identify, knowing that identity is layered and intersectional. You may hold multiple identities that influence how you move through and experience the world, and all parts of who you are welcome in our work together. Clients often describe me as warm, compassionate, and caring. I genuinely want my clients to succeed and not just in reducing symptoms, but in building meaningful, fulfilling lives. My hope is to create a space where you feel safe, seen, and supported as you move toward growth and healing.
Ideal clients
Feel overwhelmed with challenges that come your way? It's easy to feel lost with all the responsibilities and moving parts of life. Whether its parenting, work or career demands, healing past trauma, mental health struggles, family conflict, or balancing it all, we will collaborate to help these challenges become more manageable. I will love to help you to become more in control of what comes your way rather than feeling like your challenges are taking control of you. Let us work together to navigate life demands and create a life you love.
Treatment methods
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
I have been a DBT therapist for five years. I have utilised this therapy in individual and group settings.
Trauma-Focused CBT
I have been a TFCBT therapist for 9 years. I utilise this therapy to help clients work through and process their trauma in a safe and supportive way. I have experience working with clients who have experienced traumatic grief, abuse, racial trauma, complex trauma, and domestic violence.
Trauma-Informed Care
I utilise trauma informed care to understand my clients as a whole of many parts. I understand that each person is affected by the thing that they have been through. I see each client with positive regard.
Grief Therapy
I have experienced using integrated treatment for complex trauma, DBT-TFCBT, and TFCBT to address and treat clients experiencing grief.
Location
Virtual sessions
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- OhioLicense I.1901965-SUPV