About Brooke
Brooke Hickey is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and changes in life. She focuses on practical steps that build confidence and motivation. Brooke treats concerns like depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and issues related to addiction and ADHD.
Her work begins by listening to each person's story and identifying strengths they already have. Brooke uses straightforward techniques to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at small, achievable steps so progress feels manageable. Brooke draws on cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns. She also uses mindfulness practices to teach grounding and short tools for stress.
Narrative ideas help clients reframe painful experiences and find new meaning in their lives. Over five years in practice, Brooke has supported people facing grief, caregiver stress, life transitions, and career uncertainty. She also works with concerns like abandonment, foster care issues, cancer-related stress, and challenges veterans or first responders may face.
Her focus is practical help for real-life problems. Brooke aims for sessions to feel collaborative and calm. She helps people set clear goals and checks progress together.
The approach is straightforward: identify a next step, try it between sessions, and adjust based on what works.
Approaches you can use online with a counselor
Brooke commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based techniques in sessions. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on spotting thought patterns that cause stress and testing small behavior changes to improve mood and coping. Mindfulness therapy teaches short practices to calm the body and bring attention back to the present moment, which can help with anxiety and impulsivity.She also draws on narrative ideas to help people tell their story in new ways and identify strengths that were overlooked. Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Brooke collaborates with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life, and she adjusts as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, between-session coaching, or a way to fit therapy into a busy schedule. These formats make it easier to keep continuity and practice skills in real time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English