Brandi Geddings , LCMHC

Brandi Geddings is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She is nationally certified through the National Board for Certified Counselors and remains active with the American Counseling Association (ACA) and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Her training and memberships support a broad, person-centered approach to counseling that emphasizes empathy, curiosity, and practical tools.

She prioritizes strong rapport, nonjudgmental listening, authenticity, and unconditional positive regard as the foundation for therapeutic work. Using relaxed, accessible language, she aims to meet clients where they are and to collaborate on goals that fit their current life circumstances. Her counseling style is holistic and strength-based, helping clients identify internal resources, spot unhelpful patterns, and develop healthier thinking and coping strategies.

Her work is integrative and often solution-focused, blending client-centered principles with interactive cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) techniques, mindfulness practices, existential therapy ideas, family systems perspectives, and targeted psychoeducation. She offers individual, family, group, and psychoeducational formats and draws on problem-solving and skill-building to support progress.

Brandi has experience in outpatient settings with clients across the lifespan, including children, adolescents, and adults. Areas of focus include anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, ADHD in adults, life transitions, executive functioning, family dynamics, communication challenges, and self-esteem. She emphasizes practical, meaningful goals and favors interventions that make sense within a client’s real life, inviting open feedback to ensure the work remains useful and relevant.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Brandi Geddings uses client-centered therapy to create a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the client’s perspective guides the work. This approach emphasizes empathy, active listening, and collaboration to help clients clarify values, build on strengths, and set meaningful goals. It is useful for relationship concerns, self-esteem work, and navigating life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT offers practical strategies for managing anxiety, depression, mood symptoms, and everyday stress by teaching skills such as cognitive reframing and behavioral experiments.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques are integrated when clients need tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. These skills can be especially helpful for intense emotions, relationship challenges, and repeated patterns of reacting under stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is decided collaboratively. Brandi works with each person to tailor methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress unfolds.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats help make consistent care more accessible, allow ongoing skill practice between sessions, and support continuity of therapy when in-person visits are impractical.