About John
John Brooks is a licensed counselor and marriage and family therapist practicing in Louisiana with ten years of clinical experience. He views each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. He aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and direct.
Brooks focuses on practical help for common and painful problems. He works with people dealing with addictions, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, and stress.
Background and approach
He also supports those facing relationship strain, family conflict, intimacy issues, and challenges around parenting and caregiving. His approach is straightforward and people-centered. Sessions emphasize clear goals and usable skills rather than jargon.
He helps clients notice patterns, try different behaviors, and track what actually changes in daily life. John uses a mix of methods to meet different needs. That can include acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, cognitive-behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts, attachment-focused work to strengthen bonds, and dialectical skills for managing strong emotions.
The style is collaborative and paced to the person's comfort. He accepts international clients and offers multiple ways to connect. Beginning therapy is framed as a process: a short matching step followed by scheduling that fits the client's life.
He encourages people to take a small step forward when they are ready.
Approach-driven online care that fits your life
John often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT helps with anxiety, mood problems, sleep and eating issues, and managing stress with practical techniques.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That may mean blending ACT, CBT, attachment-focused ideas, or other tools as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let conversations feel close to in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter updates, ongoing coaching-like support, or a way to stay connected between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- 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 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
- Life purpose
- 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)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English