About Brook
Brook Algarin is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience helping people find steadiness and relief. She focuses on practical steps rather than jargon, and she listens for the small patterns that keep life feeling heavy. Many who come to her want to stop feeling exhausted and instead enjoy everyday moments again.
Brook uses approaches that center the person in the room. She draws on client-centered work to make sure people feel heard, and she pairs that with cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How Brook works
Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are woven in to help manage strong emotions and build calm in daily life. She also has experience addressing trauma and loss with EMDR, which can help lessen the hold of painful memories. Brook supports people working through relationship and family stress, parenting strain, career pressures, and identity concerns including LGBT issues.
She also helps with sleep struggles, panic, and mood challenges like depression and bipolar symptoms. Sessions can look different depending on what someone needs. Brook works on goal-setting, skill practice, and making room for self-compassion.
She helps people develop clearer routines, stronger boundaries, and coping strategies that fit their day-to-day life. Brook practices from South Carolina and offers sessions using video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The first step is a short matching questionnaire to find a good fit and schedule a session.
Brook lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Brook works with
The areas below are the ones Brook selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Brook's Methods Work Online
Brook often uses client-centered methods that put the person's experience first, meaning sessions start with listening and understanding what matters most to the individual. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework that translate to daily life. EMDR is offered for people who want help processing painful memories so those memories lose intensity and interfere less with current life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Brook will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before, then adapt methods over time. Clients and therapist check in regularly and adjust the plan so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not desired. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing skill coaching, and flexible communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain continuity of care.
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