About Brooke
Brooke Mckenzie is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and ADHD. She brings 20 years of experience and aims to meet each person with respect and compassion. Many people come to her for help coping with trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep or eating struggles, and major life changes.
Brooke works in a straightforward, practical way. Conversations focus on daily challenges and what can be changed right now.
Background and approach
She and the client set goals together and adjust plans as progress is made. Her background includes long-term work in clinical settings across Pennsylvania. That experience shaped how she approaches complex issues like bipolar disorder, chronic illness, co-morbidity, and difficult patterns such as codependency or attachment struggles.
She keeps the focus on useful skills and clearer routines when symptoms disrupt life. Sessions can also address parenting strain, career stress, anger, low self-esteem, and communication problems. Brooke pays attention to how relationships and family roles affect everyday functioning and decision making.
She often schedules evenings and weekend hours to fit around busy lives. New clients start by filling out a short questionnaire and then matching to a session time that works for them. Brooke aims to make the first step into therapy as simple as possible.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Brooke draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One common approach helps people build routines and skills to manage attention, day-to-day organization, and impulse-related problems; it uses short exercises and structure to make tasks more manageable. Another approach emphasizes processing difficult events and reducing their hold on current life; it relies on paced conversations and coping strategies to lower distress and improve sleep and mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Brooke will listen to your goals and try different methods to see what feels most helpful. Together you can adjust pace, focus, and tools so the work matches your needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video is useful for fuller conversations and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between talks. These options make it easier to fit therapy into evenings or weekends and to keep momentum while balancing work or family schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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