Brenda Broadnax, LPC

Brenda Broadnax is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 23 years of experience supporting children, teens, adults, and families through a wide range of emotional, behavioral, and relationship challenges. She holds a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and began her career as a therapeutic day treatment counselor within a Virginia public school system, providing direct support to students with emotional and behavioral disabilities.

Her clinical background also includes private practice work with children, adolescents, families, and adults navigating complex and co-occurring concerns, as well as county-based work with individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and other underlying conditions. Across settings, she has supported people facing concerns such as depression, anxiety, parenting stress, relationship difficulties, autism, ADHD, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and intellectual disabilities. Her experience also includes working with domestic violence victims, individuals experiencing homelessness in a clinical case management role, human trafficking victims, sexual offenders, and survivors of child abuse, as well as individuals impacted by physical trauma and emotional abuse.

Brenda Broadnax brings a warm, interactive counseling style grounded in respect, dignity, and a nonjudgmental attitude. She integrates cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, psychodynamic, rational-emotive, narrative, mindfulness-based, reality therapy, DBT, TF-CBT, and eclectic approaches, tailoring therapy to each person’s needs while helping clients build on strengths they already have for the changes they want to make.