About Brian
Brian Kay, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in Utah with 20 years of practice helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship problems, and addiction. He brings a calm, compassionate presence to sessions and focuses on practical ways to move forward. He does not use stigmatizing labels and works with each person respectfully and without judgment.
His approach blends body-focused work with tools from cognitive-behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy.
Background and approach
He also uses client-centered and dialectical behavior ideas and draws on elements of the Gottman Method for relationship concerns. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and goals rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan. Brian has experience in clinical and community settings, including conducting risk assessments in a psychiatric hospital and managing a family advocacy program while serving in the U.S.
Air Force. That background informs his practical, problem-solving orientation in counseling. In session he aims to be interactive, kind, and optimistic, helping people learn skills and try small experiments between meetings.
He pays attention to how the body and emotions connect and helps people find ways to cope that fit their daily life. He encourages people who are ready to take a step toward change to begin the process. The work focuses on clear goals, strategies to reduce distress, and steady progress toward a more satisfying life.
How somatic work and evidence-based methods fit online
Brian integrates somatic-informed work with acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and client-centered therapy. Somatic-informed approaches pay attention to bodily sensations and how the body holds stress, and they can help when anxiety, trauma, or chronic stress feel stuck in the body. ACT focuses on values and flexible action, helping people accept difficult feelings while moving toward what matters. Client-centered therapy emphasizes an empathic, non-judgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead and supports their pace and priorities.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Brian will work collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals, comfort level, and daily life. That may mean trying different tools early on and adjusting the plan based on what helps most.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the available session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow short check-ins that suit breaks at work. Some approaches translate well to remote conversations and movement-based awareness exercises, while others focus on thought and behavior strategies that are easy to practice between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English