Dr. Verda Bradley , LCSW

Dr. Verda Bradley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than 30 years of experience helping individuals and families navigate complex emotional and behavioral challenges. She focuses on relieving the emotional suffering that can follow psychosocial stressors, trauma, domestic violence, and substance misuse, and she brings extensive experience from mental health, child protection, family services, criminal justice, and recovery settings. She also holds a Certified NIDA Relapse Prevention counselor credential, reflecting specialized training in relapse prevention for substance use.

Dr. Bradley has facilitated a bereavement group twice a month for several years and provides counseling for a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family conflict, and self-esteem difficulties. Her additional focuses include caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and control issues, communication problems, guilt and shame, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and helping clients explore life purpose and midlife transitions. She prioritizes a client-centered approach that emphasizes trust, collaboration, and practical strategies to improve quality of life.

Across individual and family work, Dr. Bradley combines evidence-based techniques with compassionate support to help people manage symptoms, address underlying patterns, and develop coping skills for lasting change.

Integrating Therapeutic Approaches in Online Care

Dr. Verda Bradley draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and emotionally-focused therapy to support clients in an online format. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy and collaboration, helping people explore their goals and build self-esteem through a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship. CBT focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical strategies to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and address unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-focused therapy concentrates on emotional experience and attachment in relationships, making it useful for couples work, family conflict, and grief-related concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Dr. Bradley works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors techniques and pacing so the plan evolves with the client's progress and priorities.

Online therapy with licensed professionals offers flexible ways to engage in care - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - which can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, access support from different locations, and maintain continuity of care across life changes.