About Brooke
Brooke Lesley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and major life changes. She works with adults struggling with depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and career or caregiver stress. Brooke emphasizes a calm, practical approach so people can manage day-to-day challenges more easily.
She pays close attention to how the body and mind interact. Brooke notices bodily sensations that arise with thoughts, memories, and feelings.
Background and approach
Using that awareness, she helps people learn gentle ways to respond to distress instead of getting overwhelmed by it. Mindfulness and self-compassion are common tools in her sessions. Brooke guides clients to notice harsh self-judgments and to build kinder, steadier habits of thinking and feeling.
This often improves sleep, reduces panic, and strengthens coping during hard times. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That perspective helps people see long-standing habits and try new ways of connecting and relating.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, may be used for trauma processing when appropriate. Brooke frames therapy as a collaborative process. She treats each person as the expert on their life and works together to identify practical steps toward greater resilience and meaning.
Sessions are offered in English and are delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
How somatic and attachment approaches translate online
Somatic Therapy focuses on the connection between bodily sensations and emotions. In practice this means noticing tension, breathing patterns, and physical reactions as clues to what a person is feeling. It can help when anxiety, panic, chronic pain, or dissociation show up in the body.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in early relationships and how those patterns affect current connections and self-image. This approach helps people spot repeating habits and try out different ways of relating when they want more supported, satisfying connections.
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a method used to process traumatic memories that can feel stuck. When it is appropriate, EMDR work online can include guided attention and paced processing alongside somatic awareness to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brooke will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts tools over time so the plan reflects what is most helpful in practice.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, accommodate mobility or caregiving limits, and continue work through transitions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to provide focused, practical support and to practice body-awareness and attachment skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Oregon
- Languages
- English