About Jennifer
Jennifer "Jenni" Brooks is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship concerns. She also supports those coping with trauma, grief, addiction, self-esteem struggles, and career or life changes. Jenni writes plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She centers sessions on the person's strengths and lived experience. Jenni treats clients as partners in setting goals and deciding what will help most.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward strategies to improve motivation, build confidence, and manage symptoms day to day. Her background includes seven years working in clinical settings with people who have mood disorders, psychotic symptoms, and personality disorders. She also has a long history of supporting people with intellectual disabilities and autistic clients, and she draws on that experience to make sessions more accessible.
Jenni favors a collaborative, goal-oriented style that mixes coaching with therapy. Conversations typically include skills practice, problem solving, and small experiments to test new habits. She encourages regular check-ins on progress and adjusts plans when something isn’t working.
Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She is licensed as an LCPC in Illinois and has seven years of professional experience helping people navigate tough transitions and build clearer routines.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Jenni uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building skills and changing daily routines. One common approach she emphasizes is practical skills training, which teaches concrete ways to manage anxiety, improve sleep, and organize tasks. This helps people try small changes and see what works for them.She also draws on coaching-style work to boost motivation and confidence. That approach breaks larger goals into manageable steps and uses quick experiments to test new habits, which is useful for ADHD, depression, and coping with life transitions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try approaches that fit their needs, and adjust methods based on what proves helpful. Clients help shape the plan and decide which techniques feel most useful.
Online care is offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and teaching of strategies, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in, live chat is good for short exchanges, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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