About Brooke
Brooke Bowen welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to turn. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years in the field and offers calm, steady support for everyday struggles and bigger life shifts. Brooke keeps language simple and practical in sessions.
She listens first, then helps people set small, doable goals. She uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs rather than one fixed method.
How Brooke works
Her background includes a double Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Criminal Justice with a focus on forensic investigations, plus a Master of Science in Psychology and additional graduate study in Criminal Justice and Community Agency Counseling. That training and her varied work settings have shaped a flexible, problem-solving style.
Brooke aims to help clients make sense of past experiences and develop tools to manage the present. She pays attention to relationships, personal values, and coping skills. Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, self-esteem, addiction, grief, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
Sessions tend to be warm and nonjudgmental. Brooke encourages people to try practical steps between meetings and to track what helps. Her approach is collaborative and focused on building skills people can use outside therapy.
Brooke practices in Alabama and conducts work in English. She brings experience from many settings and strives to tailor care to each person’s life and goals.
Brooke lists 19 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Brooke works with
The areas below are the ones Brooke selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter to you. It helps when worry, avoidance, or low motivation get in the way of living the life you want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches clear strategies to shift them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep, and many everyday struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change how they relate and connect with others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brooke will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and comfort level. She adapts techniques as progress unfolds so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let you speak face to face from wherever you are, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging allow short check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other commitments while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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