Animating Principle

Through Animating Principle, Britney provides modern therapy, mentoring, coaching, and consulting services to individuals, parents, families, and professionals. Britney works collaboratively with children, adolescents, and adults to develop an individualized plan focused on client goals and unique needs of each individual. Britney works with a wide variety of challenges and enhancement opportunities, and specializes in helping others reach their full potential and find purpose and meaning in life. Britney uses her training in multiple therapeutic modalities to form an Integrative approach with a foundation rooted in Existential, Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), and Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) However, Britney tailors treatment 100 percent to each individual and can pull from a variety of other approaches when needed, such as Mindfulness-Based, Humanistic, Solution-Focused, Psychodynamic, Art, Play Therapy and more! Britney firmly believes that you are the expert of your own life. She will work with you to clarify your thoughts and feelings, identify your choices, increase accountability, gain awareness, challenge and replace negative thought and behavior patterns, and increase value-committed actions to uncover meaning, increase fulfillment and purpose, and maximize potential. 

Britney holds two Master’s Degrees; a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy and a Master of Advanced Study in Criminology, Law and Society. She is published in the area of neurology of mindfulness and was awarded several research awards for her work in the areas of the negative impact of solitary confinement on prisoners in the justice system, as well as the influence of mindfulness on personality disorders. Britney began her counseling experience by working with students in the ULV College Counseling Center. From there, she worked at a private practice for 6 years in La Canada before starting her own practice, Animating Principle, in Montrose over 4 years ago. More recently, Britney and her husband Sean opened their second location, Animating Principle’s Workshop in Montrose, to serve a wider range of the community with individual, group, and art therapy services for all ages. Britney prides herself on being a grounded, detail-oriented, approachable and accessible therapist, coach, and consultant. She is a realist and never hesitates to get straight to the point! She believes in the healing power of humor to explore and normalize the human experience. She strives to be authentic and genuine, and is a dedicated life-long learner. Her experience growing up gifted, with ADHD and anxiety (to name a couple), add personal insight to her professional knowledge and experience, and further deepen her passion in her areas of speciality. After finding what brings her to life, Britney is humbled and grateful to have the opportunity to help you do the same.