Brittney PerkinsLMSW

About Brittney

Brittney Perkins is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) practicing under the supervision of Courtnie Merrill-Perry, LISW-CPS. She believes therapy is not about having everything figured out. It is a place where clients can finally set things down, breathe, and be met with understanding instead of pressure. Brittney works with individuals navigating grief, caregiver stress, identity shifts, and major life transitions. Her approach is grounded in compassion, presence, and respect for the emotional weight people often carry silently for too long. Brittney earned a Bachelor's degree in Family and Consumer Sciences, with a focus in Early Intervention, and a Master of Social Work from Winthrop University. Her clinical background includes hospice and end-of-life care, child welfare (including foster care and adoption), youth mentoring, and early childhood development. These experiences have shown her the many ways people experience loss, connection, and change across the lifespan. Brittney has come to understand that suffering is rarely about one moment or one circumstance. It is often layered, relational, and shaped by experiences that were never fully processed or supported. In therapy, she helps clients gently untangle those layers with care, clarity, and self-compassion. Brittney takes an integrative, strengths-based approach that draws on cognitive-behavioral principles, mindfulness, and acceptance-based strategies, alongside trauma-informed and grief-focused care. Brittney often works with clients who are carrying the emotional weight of caring for others, moving through grief, loss, or anticipatory grief, experiencing identity shifts or life transitions, or feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or emotionally exhausted. The work focuses on both understanding the client's experience and building tools that help them move through life in a more grounded way, aligned with who they are becoming and not only who they have had to be. Therapy with Brittney is collaborative, steady, and rooted in authenticity and genuine connection. Clients do not need to perform, explain everything perfectly, or rush their process. They can show up as they are, and the work begins there.