About Brooke
Brooke Bowen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for strong emotions like anger, grief, and low self-esteem. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, aimed at helping people find practical ways to cope and move forward.
Brooke studied psychology and criminal justice and holds a Master of Science in Psychology. She has worked in counseling since 2003, bringing 22 years of experience across a range of settings and client backgrounds.
Background and approach
That long practice informs how she responds to complex concerns like addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and caregiver stress. Her approach blends several methods to match each person's needs. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral work to challenge unhelpful thoughts, acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values, and attachment-based thinking to improve close relationships.
Brooke also draws on client-centered listening to create a respectful space. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps. Brooke helps people build coping skills, improve sleep and eating habits, address intimacy or relationship worries, and cope with chronic illness or life transitions.
She offers care for a broad range of concerns including body image, trauma, and compassion fatigue. Brooke provides services from Alabama and works in English. Her years in the field mean she can adapt to what a person needs, whether that is short-term coaching or longer therapeutic work.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and building small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches concrete techniques to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating issues. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people change how they relate in close relationships and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brooke will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and daily life. She adapts strategies over time, mixing techniques as needed so the work stays practical and focused on what the person wants to achieve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer shorter exchanges or need flexibility during the day. These options make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English