Tobi Brenner, LPC, NCC

I help women navigate anxiety, life transitions, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and the weight of everyone else's expectations so they can reconnect with themselves and create lives that feel fulfilling, authentic, and truly their own.

Hi, I'm Tobi Brenner, Licensed Professional Counselor, women's empowerment coach, and founder of EmpowHer Counseling.

If you're the woman everyone else relies on, but secretly you're exhausted, overwhelmed, anxious, or wondering when exactly your life became all about taking care of everyone else's needs, you're in the right place.

Many of my clients are successful, high-achieving women who have spent years being responsible, accommodating, and putting themselves last, personally and professionally. They've mastered the art of holding it all together while quietly feeling stressed, disconnected, resentful, or stuck. Somewhere along the way, they've lost sight of what they want, need, or even who they are outside of the roles they fill for everyone else.

I know this journey personally. Before becoming a therapist, I spent more than 20 years in corporate consulting, business operations, and human resources. I've navigated career pressures, caregiving responsibilities, major life transitions, grief, and the challenge of learning that self-sacrifice is not the same thing as self-worth.

My approach is warm, direct, supportive, and occasionally sprinkled with humor and some salty language. I use evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and strength-based techniques to help clients move beyond anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and self-doubt.

Together, we'll work on setting boundaries without guilt, quieting the inner critic, managing anxiety, building confidence, and creating a life that feels more aligned with who you are—not who everyone else expects you to be.

I believe prioritizing yourself isn't selfish. It's healthy. And if you've spent years carrying the weight of everyone else's expectations, therapy can be the place where you finally put some of that weight down.