Trauma can leave experiences feeling stuck in the present rather than part of the past. In this Q&A, Brooke shares her approach to trauma therapy, focusing on safety, pacing, and helping people feel more vibrant and alive.

Clients who use substances in varying degrees are often grouped together under the label “addicts.” This all-or-nothing thinking reduces individuals to one category, stripping away their histories, complexities, strengths and resiliences. It also fails to account for the diversity and range of substance-related issues clients experience.

Trauma can leave experiences feeling stuck in the present rather than part of the past. In this Q&A, Brooke shares her approach to trauma therapy, focusing on safety, pacing, and helping people feel more vibrant and alive.

Leading with Empathy and Boundaries in a Stressful Time: We’re living in an era where headlines feel relentlessly urgent. Each day seems to deliver more unsettling news…

Sometimes, when we experience a confusing situation in our lives—a tricky misunderstanding, a missed flight, a difficult loss, or even positive news we weren't expecting—we can find ourselves in a nagging bind…

Psychodynamic therapy is a reflective, open-ended approach that looks at both the past and present. In this Q&A, Brooke shares how this work unfolds, what it can address, and why she finds it so meaningful.

Sometimes the demands of life feel like more than we can handle. We find that we are stuck in a thought process and don’t know our way out. There is a way through this. We may just need a different approach.

Anxiety can present itself through a broad range of symptoms.  For the majority of the individuals I work with, anxiety can show up as chronic worry, ruminations or obsessive thoughts that interrupts their day-to-day functioning and negatively impacts their lives.

As I learned at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America’s conference earlier this year, the parents are also not alright.

Some people feel a deep low mood, while others feel flat or numb. There’s often a loss of motivation, trouble concentrating, guilt, an inability to experience pleasure, difficulty making decisions, and/or a sense of hopelessness - like you can’t imagine things getting better. For many, there’s also physical fatigue, appetite or sleep changes, or just this sense of emotional heaviness that makes it hard to function. It can also include experiencing suicidal thoughts.

In my practice I encourage my patients to build their own “tool box” for managing mental health symptoms, and for most of us these tools include some combination of: psychotropic medications; psychotherapy; lifestyle choices (such as exercise /meditation); and social connections / sources of relationship support. However - if there was one fundamental tool I could bestow to all of my patients - it would be the practice of self-compassion.

Sometimes, when we experience a confusing situation in our lives—a tricky misunderstanding, a missed flight, a difficult loss, or even positive news we weren't expecting—we can find ourselves in a nagging bind…