Brisi Sono-Cochrane, LAMFT

Brisi is a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. Her educational background is in Psychology with a concentration in Child Development Psychology, Early Childhood Education and Creative Arts. She earned her Master’s degree in Marriage & Family Therapy. Throughout her career, she has worked with adults, adolescents, children, couples, and families with issues such as anger management, anxiety, depression, domestic violence, eating disorders, family and life transition issues, sexual assault/violence, trauma, and suicide. Brisi has specialized training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally- Focused Therapy (EFT), Structural Family Therapy (FST), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Multisystem Therapy (MST), Psychodramatic/Psychodynamic Therapy, and The Gottman Method for Couples Therapy.

Personally, Brisi believes in teamwork to make any dream work. Drawing from her clinical experience with patients, she has first handedly seen that there is beauty and light in even the darkest of times. She helps her patients access that light and continue to choose it. In and out of the therapy room, Brisi believes it is important to have a framed mindset within which emotional, mental and relational growth is nurtured and supported. Brisi instills the belief in her patients that they all have the agency to empower themselves and one another in order to change and harness the relationships and quality of life they envision for themselves. Brisi’s essential therapeutic strategies include exploration, validation, and helping patients heal from the problems that prevent them from thriving in a safe space. Her goal is to offer an empathic, safe, and validating therapeutic space from which she and her patient can explore and collaboratively work to heal what ails them and/or their loved ones.

In and out of the therapy room, Brisi believes it is important to have a framed mindset within which emotional, mental and relational growth is nurtured and supported. As a systematically-trained couples & family therapist, Brisi instills the belief in her clients that they all have the agency to empower themselves and one another in order to change and harness the relationships and quality of life they envision for themselves. Brisi’s essential therapeutic strategies include exploration, validation, and helping clients heal from the problems that prevent them from thriving in a safe space. Her goal is to offer an empathic, safe and validating therapeutic space from which she and her client can explore and collaboratively work to heal what ails them and/or their loved ones.

A message from Brisi: “I hope to support you and help you hold your flashlight as you pave the way through your healing journey.”