About Briana
Briana Dow is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in New York. She has four years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
Briana focuses on respectful, sensitive care and aims to make the first step toward help feel manageable for a worried parent or individual. She uses everyday language in sessions and designs a plan that fits each person’s situation.
Conversations focus on concrete problems like sleep, eating, parenting strain, or addictions, and on practical ways to cope with life changes. She also supports work on self-esteem, motivation, and communication problems.
Briana pays close attention to issues around grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy, and anger. She can help people dealing with bipolar symptoms, ADHD challenges, social anxiety, or feelings of isolation and shame.
Sessions address both immediate concerns and longer-term goals like rebuilding trust or improving daily routines. The therapist adapts her approach based on what the client finds helpful.
That means trying different strategies until something feels useful and realistic. She emphasizes compassion, listening without judgment, and building small, doable steps toward change.
People meet via video calls, phone, live chat, or messaging depending on what fits their schedule. She explains the process, works with each person’s goals, and helps track progress over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on practical changes and clearer thinking. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and shift them toward more balanced thinking, which can ease anxiety, low mood, and social fears. Another approach concentrates on building daily routines and small habits to improve sleep, eating, motivation, and stability for mood challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that seem promising, and adjust based on what helps. This happens collaboratively so the plan fits the client's life and feels doable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for therapy that benefits from face-to-face interaction. Phone calls work when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins, brief reflections, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, school, or parenting demands and support consistent progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English