Bri works with tweens, teens, and adults, including college and graduate students and young adults navigating life transitions. Her areas of focus include anxiety, depression, grief, recovery from trauma, academic and work issues, and social and interpersonal challenges. She has significant experience supporting neurodivergent and neurotypical individuals, creatives, and those navigating the complexities of cancer. 

Bri is committed to creating an open and supportive space where clients can explore their genuine identities and direction, build confidence, and thrive in their lives. She is passionate about helping individuals author their own stories and find meaning and growth from the challenges they have faced. As a Poetry Therapist in training, she creatively uses evocative literature and bibliotherapy to guide people in journaling and in deepening their relationship with themselves.

Empathic, warm, and inviting, Bri integrates an interactive and reflective approach into her sessions. She balances thoughtful emotional processing with lightheartedness and humor, believing that therapy should be a place where clients feel both supported and respectfully challenged. Bri focuses on the therapeutic relationship and a collaborative approach as a foundation from which insight, personal strengths, and meaningful change can emerge.

Bri’s integrative approach incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), Exposure and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Solution Focused Therapy, and mindfulness. As a bilingual therapist, she provides services in both English and Spanish. Bri earned her Bachelor’s degree from Augustana College and her Master of Social Work from the University of Illinois Chicago.