About the practice
Founded in 2022 by Dr. Jacqueline Burnett-Brown, Briarpatch Solutions is an inclusive psychotherapy practice grounded in the belief that each person’s story unfolds within relationships, families, communities, and the wider systems that shape daily life.
Dr. Jacqueline Burnett-Brown
Dr. Burnett-Brown is a licensed marriage and family therapist trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the foundation of systemic therapy. Her work attends to the ways early family experiences can shape attachment, relationships, and the patterns that emerge later in personal and professional life.
Briarpatch Solutions welcomes individuals, couples, and families, with particular care for BIPOC, LGBTQ, and adult autistic communities. The practice is committed to making room for experiences that have too often been overlooked, misunderstood, or dismissed.
A systemic perspective
Each person comes from a family system before moving into broader systems of school, community, and work. Psychoanalytic and systemic work can help illuminate how these histories, expectations, and environments continue to influence the ways we attach, relate, protect ourselves, and imagine what is possible.
Our briarpatches are those comfortably uncomfortable spaces, people, and patterns of behavior that we find ourselves returning to over and over again.
Areas of focus
Dr. Burnett-Brown’s research examines systemic racism in educational and other environments and its impact on individuals of color. She infuses restorative justice into her work with BIPOC and other disenfranchised communities.
As a certified autism spectrum disorder clinical specialist, Dr. Burnett-Brown screens for and diagnoses autism spectrum disorder in adults, offering care that recognizes neurodivergence with respect and clarity.
As a certified sex informed therapist, Dr. Burnett-Brown works with individuals and couples navigating sexual dysfunction, including experiences shaped by organic concerns or sexual trauma.
For couples affected by infidelity, the work creates space to understand what happened, attend to its impact, and explore a path from rupture toward renewed intimacy.
Briarpatch Solutions
The work begins by making space for what has been carried, what has been repeated, and what may be ready to change.