Brandy Cobbs

Brandy Cobbs is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Alabama, with decades of professional experience and licensure dating back to the 1990s. Her career includes long-term public service work with the State of Alabama, where she supported foster children, families at risk of losing custody, and individuals impacted by child abuse and neglect, including intake and crisis-related responsibilities. After retiring from that role in November 2021, she expanded her professional focus to include ADHD coach training and certification, bringing an added layer of structure and skills-based support to her work.

She helps clients navigate coping with life changes, ADHD-related concerns, and compassion fatigue, and she also brings personal perspective as someone diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood. She understands the mix of grief, relief, and recalibration that can come with looking back on life before diagnosis while building practical techniques and self-acceptance moving forward. Her work with ADHD-related concerns includes experience supporting college students, women over 50, and parents of children with ADHD, while also recognizing that executive functioning challenges can be connected to many factors such as autism spectrum conditions, depression, stroke, traumatic brain injuries, aging, and chronic health-related brain fog. When appropriate and mutually agreed upon, she may draw from both coaching and therapy-informed strategies to help clients develop workable routines and personalized accommodations.

As a parent of two young adult sons, Brandy also has lived insight into infertility, multiple miscarriages, and the challenges of prematurity and a NICU experience. She values the role of creativity and meaningful interests in emotional wellbeing and self-esteem, and she encourages clients to consider how hobbies, intellectual pursuits, and restorative outlets can support mental health. She is open to incorporating spirituality and mindfulness when those are important to a client, with a willingness to discuss how religion may be supportive or may have been a source of trauma. She identifies as an Episcopalian and is not comfortable providing Christian-based counseling in a restricting or conservative manner. Brandy is open and affirming of all people and welcomes clients regardless of identity or who they are attracted to, while noting she does not claim specialized LGBTQIA+ therapeutic expertise.

Clients come to therapy for many reasons, and Brandy approaches this work with flexibility and collaboration. For some, therapy is a space to clarify what they want to improve and create small, realistic steps toward change. For others, it is a place to vent, brainstorm, and gain insight into patterns or obstacles that have contributed to stress and stalled opportunities.