About Brooke
Brooke Bowen is a Licensed Professional Counselor who aims to make starting therapy feel easier. She speaks plainly and offers steady, compassionate support for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship concerns, ADHD, and related struggles. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Brooke earned a Master of Science in Psychology after completing a double Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Criminal Justice with a focus in forensic investigations.
Background and approach
She has worked in clinical and community settings since 2003, bringing 22 years of experience to her work in Alabama. She draws on several therapeutic approaches to shape each session around the individual in front of her.
That can mean paying attention to how stress shows up in the body, focusing on personal values and committed action, or exploring attachment patterns that affect close relationships. Conversations tend to be direct, grounded, and geared toward usable tools for daily life. Brooke also helps people sort out practical problems such as sleep, parenting strain, career stress, and caregiving burden.
She addresses sensitive topics like intimacy, body image, and sexual expression with respect and without judgment. Sessions are aimed at helping people manage symptoms now while building skills for the future. Her approach blends empathy with clear steps so clients can notice change and make choices that fit their goals.
Brooke works in English and provides online session formats that fit different schedules and needs.
How Brooke blends approaches in online therapy
Somatic-informed therapy pays attention to how stress and trauma show up in the body and uses gentle awareness and movement to help people notice and change physical patterns contributing to distress. It can be helpful for chronic tension, anxiety, and recovery from traumatic experiences.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small committed steps aligned with those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and making life changes.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in close relationships and helps people develop more supported ways of connecting and communicating. This approach can aid work on intimacy, grief, and relationship concerns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Brooke will work with each person to tailor methods to their needs, goals, and comfort level. She encourages feedback and adjusts the plan over time so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue work between meetings, and access support from home. Many people find the variety of formats helpful for practicing skills and staying connected to the therapeutic process.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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 conflicts
- 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
- 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)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- 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
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English