BRENDA VELLANCE, MS, LMHC

Brenda is a Licensed Clinical Psychiatry beginning her career with Family Service Centers in 1991 providing individual and group therapy in the treatment of issues ranging from chronic mental illness to personal growth, facilitating court ordered Anger Management Groups and providing psychotherapy for chronically ill children and their families. She researched and developed educational material for classes, seminars, and workshops on a myriad of psycho-educational topics such as gender differences, personality typing, conflict resolution communication skills, and more presenting to businesses, professional organizations, and Pinellas County School teachers and Guidance Counselors. Brenda was an Adjunct Facility Member with St. Petersburg College and Nova University teaching undergraduate Psychology classes. She also worked with Northpointe Psychiatric Hospital providing individual and group psychotherapy for chronic mentally ill population in a partial hospitalization program and in an acute inpatient setting.

Currently Brenda is in private practice and enjoys working with adults, teens, and families struggling with depression, anxiety, OCD, relationship issues such as marital discord, divorce adjustment, blending families, acting out teens, life transitions, grieving losses, and rebuilding. With Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy, she helps clients open their minds to the possibility of hope, optimism, trust, resilience, and intimacy to improve mental, physical and spiritual wellness.

Brenda is not taking new patients at this time.