About Valayshia
Valayshia Brookins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Connecticut with nine years of clinical experience. She helps people who are managing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes. Her approach is direct and supportive, focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She creates a calm space where clients can speak honestly about difficult feelings. Valayshia aims to reduce shame and blame so people can try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
She emphasizes clear communication and small, achievable goals. In sessions she listens for patterns that get in the way of daily life - things like impulsivity, difficulty with focus, or trouble sleeping. She works with clients on skills for managing mood, improving relationships, and handling grief or loss.
Her background includes helping people facing addiction, compassion fatigue, and challenges related to identity and intimacy. Valayshia pays attention to how early attachment and abandonment wounds show up now. She also supports people dealing with body image, chronic illness, codependency, or career stress.
Her style blends practical coaching with emotional support to help clients move forward. She offers a mix of session formats to fit different schedules and needs, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
New clients begin by completing a short questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
Therapeutic approaches and how online care fits
Valayshia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she draws on emphasizes skill-building for managing mood and anxiety; this involves learning concrete coping strategies, practicing them in daily life, and tracking progress over time. It is useful for stress, panic, sleep issues, and concentration problems.Another frequent focus is relational and attachment work, which looks at how early hurts affect current relationships. This approach helps people recognize patterns like fear of abandonment, codependency, or communication problems and try new ways of relating that feel safer and clearer.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Valayshia collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. She adjusts tools and pacing as progress and feedback guide the work.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have a deeper face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching or quick support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this therapist 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
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