About Brook
Brook Algarin is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience helping people untangle stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She works with adults who feel exhausted by trying to keep everything together and who want a different way of living day to day.
Brook listens for the scenes from the past that keep replaying and the small, repeated worries that steal energy. She talks with clients about practical steps to reduce overwhelm and build more calm in everyday life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now and on small changes that make a real difference. Her approach blends client-centered care with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when trauma, panic, or intense emotions are part of the story.
Those tools are used to help people manage symptoms and change unhelpful patterns. Brook also supports people dealing with parenting strain, caregiving stress, issues around identity and sexuality, and life transitions such as midlife shifts or career change. Additional areas she addresses include sleep problems, fertility and blended family concerns, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Brook practices in South Carolina and conducts sessions in English. She encourages a straightforward, collaborative style where goals are clear and progress is tracked over time. If someone wants to move past old scenes and feel more present, Brook helps them map a step-by-step plan toward that goal.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what is said, and helps the person clarify goals and values. This approach is useful for people who want a respectful, accepting space to sort out feelings and choices.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and emotions interact. It uses practical exercises and behavior changes to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and change unhelpful habits. CBT works well in short-term online sessions because homework and skill practice are easy to assign and review remotely.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness techniques that can be practiced between sessions to reduce crises and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brook will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking progress, and adjusting plans together so therapy stays useful and focused.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps preserve visual cues during in-depth sessions. Phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and texting allow shorter, more frequent touchpoints for skills practice and check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules while keeping treatment consistent.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Brook address?
What is Brook's therapeutic style?
How much experience does she have?
Where is Brook licensed and based?
Are sessions offered in other languages?
What session formats are available?
How do costs and billing work?
What do I need to do to begin?
What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English