About Brooke
Brooke Hickey helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. She meets individuals who want clearer routines, steadier moods, or help rebuilding confidence. Brooke aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive.
Brooke is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Texas with five years of experience. She focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. That can mean breaking big problems into small goals or trying different ways to respond to tough thoughts.
How Brooke works
Her work often addresses parenting strain, relationship stress, and concerns like addiction, depression, or ADHD. She also supports people facing loss, caregiver burden, and issues related to adoption or military life. Brooke listens for strengths clients already have and builds on them.
Brooke uses several approaches depending on the person and situation. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity, narrative ideas to reframe personal stories, and solution-focused steps to reach immediate goals. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented.
People who choose Brooke can expect straightforward conversation and collaborative planning. She helps set clear steps and checks progress over time. The aim is to leave each session with something useful to try between appointments.
Brooke lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and testing small changes to reduce symptoms. It often helps with anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and challenges like ADHD by giving clear tools and exercises to practice.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. It can help people who feel overwhelmed by stress, have trouble sleeping, or get stuck in negative thought patterns.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Brooke will work together with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. Plans are revisited and adjusted so the work stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life. Video calls let people see facial cues and do guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and the ability to share notes or reflections between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for those balancing work, caregiving, or travel.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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