Bryan Busse
Experienced LMFT helping people through major life challenges
LMFT California
- Experience
- 28 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Grief, Coping with life changes
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Bryan
Bryan Busse is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 28 years of clinical experience. He helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting strain, addiction concerns, ADHD, and life changes.
Background and approach
His work also addresses relationship and family issues and caregiver or aging-related challenges. Bryan draws on a wide range of approaches rather than a single method.
He aims to build a trusting, empathic relationship so people feel safe to talk through hard things. Sessions focus on practical steps and real-life changes rather than jargon or abstract theory.
His early training included work in substance abuse programs, school settings, and county residential care for at-risk youth. That work expanded into neuropsychology clinics where he learned biofeedback and neurofeedback techniques used with traumatic brain injury, dementia, and pain management.
Bryan earned a master’s degree with honors in Counseling Psychology and became a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in 2004. His background includes independent practice, clinical agencies, hospice, home health, assisted living, and memory care settings where he supported people facing serious illness and caregiving stress.
Personal experience informs his practice. He is a parent and step-parent and has cared for family members with dementia, cancer, and addiction.
Those life events shape his focus on aging, caregiver stress, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and practical coping skills. He pairs real-world perspective with therapeutic tools to help people move forward.
How Bryan brings proven approaches to online care
Gottman Method work focuses on communication, conflict patterns, and rebuilding trust. It helps people identify recurring interaction cycles and practice concrete skills for calmer conversations and clearer connection. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, emphasizes noticing unhelpful thoughts, clarifying values, and committing to small actions that match what matters. It is useful for anxiety, grief, and motivation struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current bonds and helps people develop safer ways of relating and asking for support.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose or combine methods so sessions stay practical and focused on the outcomes the client wants.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to ongoing care. Video calls let people work face-to-face when that matters. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging make short check-ins and between-session support possible. These options let clients match the format to the moment and keep therapy consistent with daily life.
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Experience
28+ years
Licensed in
California
Languages
English