Brian Rainforth, LCSW-R

Brian has been working with adults, families, and children in WNY for the past 9 years in outpatient mental health services. He provides services to patients 10 years and older.

Brian offers person-centered treatment and uses eclectic modalities including solution focused therapy, motivational interviewing, and trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy. Brian will provide information on symptoms, offer helpful coping strategies when appropriate, evaluate belief systems, and identify thinking distortions and how to challenge them. Brian has experience working with grief and loss, PTSD, generalized anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, OCD, major depression, bipolar disorder and related mood disorders, relationship issues, family conflict, anger management, oppositional defiance, ADHD, and co-existing disorders.Brian graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a bachelor’s degree in Social Work and obtained his master’s degree in Social Work from the University at Buffalo. He works to engage with patients, create a safe space to explore their concerns without judgment, and address their identified needs with compassion and skill.