About Valayshia
Valayshia Brookins is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Connecticut with nine years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by offering steady support and practical guidance. Valayshia aims to create a calm space where people can talk honestly about what they are facing.
Her work centers on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and major life changes. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addiction, sleep and eating problems, and career-related stress.
Background and approach
Additional areas of focus include ADHD, compassion fatigue, body image, and attachment-related challenges. Valayshia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people build coping skills and make clearer decisions. Sessions tend to focus on identifying manageable steps, improving communication, and reducing distress in daily life.
She aims to tailor the work to each person’s situation rather than applying a one-size-fits-all plan. People who come to her often want practical help alongside emotional support. Valayshia encourages honest conversation about setbacks and progress.
She helps clients set realistic goals, practice new ways of responding, and notice small changes that add up over time. Her style is direct but compassionate, with an emphasis on collaboration. Valayshia works with clients to track progress and adjust strategies as needed.
She supports people who are ready to try different tools to feel more capable and balanced.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Valayshia draws on well-established, evidence-based techniques to guide her work. One common approach focuses on building coping skills for anxiety and depression through structured exercises and behavioral changes. This helps people reduce daily overwhelm and notice progress in small steps.Another approach emphasizes stabilizing responses to trauma and abuse by teaching grounding and emotion-regulation tools. Those techniques aim to make strong emotions easier to manage so people can think and act more clearly. A third strand of work concentrates on communication and relationship skills to address intimacy, family tensions, and codependency issues.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Valayshia will help clients identify goals and try methods that match their needs and preferences. She adjusts the plan based on feedback so the work fits the person rather than expecting the person to fit a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy or changing schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is helpful. Phone sessions or audio-only calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when clients prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or convenient support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to apply what is learned in everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English