Welcome to Blooming Season

Welcome to Blooming Season 🌸

A space for real talk, mental wellness, and unapologetic growth

Hey hey! Welcome to my very first blog post. My name is Brittany Daniel, and I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor based out of Houston TX.  If this is our first introduction, feel free to settle in and get comfy. I consider myself an open book—and things are about to get juicy.

To those of you who already know me (or have lovingly dubbed me your favorite therapist😉jk), I’m so excited for you to get to know me beyond the four walls of the therapy room.

Let’s start with the highlights:
I’m a Black Christian woman, a single mom, and an anxious mess if you catch me on the right day. I’m an advocate for mental health, yet I hate parts of my job as a mental health professional. I’m full of biases, a goofball by nature, and I sometimes struggle to accept what’s outside of my control. I’m human. I’m flawed. And I’m still blooming!

Which is how we got here.

Why Blooming Season?

I created Blooming Season as a space where I can exist in full bloom—no filters and no facades. Personally, this blog will be a space of radical honesty. I’ll share my life, my strongholds, and yes, even my biases, both as a person and as a therapist.

Professionally, I’ll offer tips, insight, and psychoeducation to help you nurture your own mental health. As an advocate for mental wellness, I believe in equipping people with practical tools to keep in their arsenal. I mean, let’s be real—when you know better, you do better. So, let’s break cycles, unlearn unhealthy patterns, and (dare I say it?) bloom.

A Safe Space for Therapists, Too

This blog is also a platform for other mental health professionals to share their experience and expertise beyond the therapy office. As therapists, we’re often expected to have it all together, to be perfect or polished but—News flash: therapists aren’t perfect! Sometimes we are winging it in life and are navigating the same storms as you; so, make room, sis.

Let’s Redefine What It Means to Grow

The ultimate goal of this blog is to make growth, openness, and wellness a priority—without sugarcoating or censoring the process. 

For flowers to bloom and reach their peak of beauty they must be in the right season with ideal environmental circumstances however, life does not always present us with the most perfect conditions.  For us, waiting for the perfect timing could often lead to us missing opportunities to grow. With that in mind, I challenge you to bloom right where you are. 

Your blooming season isn’t determined by perfection, it’s determined by perspective, resilience, and adaptability. Whether you’re facing mental illness, relationship issues, everyday stress, or just a rough patch, you still have the power to create change and experience fullness in life.

Let’s Bloom Together

Through this blog, we’ll hold each other accountable. We’ll step away from what is expected, what is cookie cutter or what is considered proper and acceptable.  Instead, we will focus on authenticity with our obligation being, to do our best and to grow beyond what we have been through.

So again, I say welcome to my new blog space where we listen, and we don’t judge. Where our aim is to learn and grow unapologetically.  In a world full of chaos, my hope is to create a corner of genuine connection—where you don’t have to be guarded, and where being you is more than enough.

If that resonates with you, then you are cordially invited to enter the blooming season—a space where you can get to know me, and more importantly, get to know you.

I can’t wait to see where this journey takes us.

Until next time,
Brittany 🌸

Written By Brittany A. Daniel, LPC-S

2025