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Brandi Garner

Brandi Garner, LPC

Therapist in Colorado

Compassionate counselor focused on relationships and intimacy

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Experience

5+ years

Credentials

LPC

Languages

English

Based in

Colorado

  • Sex positive approach
  • Practical coping skills
  • Attachment informed

About Brandi

Brandi Garner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado. She describes herself as sex positive and focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related issues. Her work also covers grief, caregiving stress, life transitions, addiction, and challenges connected to aging and ADHD.

She uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each person. Sessions look at practical steps to reduce anxiety, improve communication, and address intimacy concerns. Brandi emphasizes collaboration and helps clients set goals they can work toward between meetings.

Her background includes five years of professional counseling experience in clinical mental health settings. That experience includes supporting people through grief, end-of-life planning, and family-of-origin concerns. She also brings experience with addiction, religious trauma, and caregiving stressors.

Brandi integrates several therapeutic approaches to match a person’s needs. She incorporates acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral tools, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy. The aim is practical change and clearer ways to handle emotional pain and relationship challenges.

She works with people on communication problems, commitment and codependency issues, blended family concerns, and alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink. Brandi supports clients who want to explore intimacy and sexual well-being without judgment.

How Brandi’s Approaches Shape Online Care

Brandi draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people identify values and take small, manageable steps toward them. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match what matters to the person, which can help with anxiety, life transitions, and intimacy goals.

She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. This perspective helps people understand communication struggles, commitment issues, and repeated relationship cycles. Client-centered listening is a core part of her approach, giving people space to be heard and to guide the pace of work.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Brandi works collaboratively to pick methods that fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts strategies as progress is made. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to focus on during sessions.

The biography does not specify which online session formats are used, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find online sessions helpful because they fit more easily into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Talk with the therapist about timing and session length to find a setup that works with day-to-day life.

Areas of expertise

Also works with

AddictionsRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBDSM, kink, and alternative sex cultureBlended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDependent personalityDivorce and separationDrug and alcohol addictionFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFertility issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingInfidelityJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMoney and financial issuesPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSexual assault and abuseSexual dysfunctionSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Existential TherapyJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

License details

LPC · Colorado
LPC.0019618
NPI (National Provider Identifier)
1588218564

As listed on the therapist's professional profile. You can check these details with the relevant licensing board, professional body or registry.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?

She helps people with stress, anxiety, grief, intimacy-related issues, coping with life changes, ADHD, addictions, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting, anger, self-esteem, career strain, and compassion fatigue.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She blends acceptance-based, attachment-informed, client-centered, cognitive-behavioral, and DBT tools to meet practical goals.

What is her clinical background?

She has five years of professional counseling experience working in clinical mental health settings and with issues like grief, addiction, religious trauma, and caregiving stress.

Where is she licensed and practicing?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Colorado.

Which languages are offered for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the US work with her?

She does not accept international clients at this time.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I start working with her?

Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Some intimacy concerns have a physical side. If you notice pain or other physical symptoms, please speak with a doctor as well. Therapy can sit alongside medical care, not replace it.

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