About Brooke
Brooke Lesley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and major life changes in a calm, practical way. She pays attention to how the body and mind interact so clients can feel steadier in everyday life.
Brooke blends gentle mindfulness with body-focused awareness to help people notice reactions as they happen. She encourages self-compassion alongside skills to reduce distress and improve sleep, mood, and focus.
How Brooke works
Sessions aim to highlight strengths that are easy to miss when worry or shame take the lead. Her approach includes attachment-informed ideas, client-centered listening, and existential conversation about meaning and purpose. Brooke also uses EMDR and somatic-minded methods when appropriate for trauma-related symptoms.
She explains options clearly and works at the client’s pace. Brooke has a history supporting people coping with addiction, bipolar disorder, depression, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, dissociation, and the impact of domestic violence or past family hurt.
Her background includes twelve years of clinical practice in Oregon. In sessions she aims to make small changes add up. Conversations focus on what can be tried between meetings, how to spot unhelpful patterns, and how to build routines that support daily functioning.
Brooke works in English and offers multiple remote session formats to fit different schedules.
Brooke lists 8 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.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Brooke uses attachment-informed work to look at how early connections shape current relationships and ways of coping. This helps when trust, closeness, or repeating patterns cause distress. Client-centered therapy means sessions focus on the person's priorities and move at their pace, with the therapist listening and reflecting rather than directing change.EMDR is also part of her toolkit and is used when trauma memories or intense reactions need targeted processing. That method pairs focused attention with guided techniques to help reduce the emotional charge of past events. Together these approaches offer ways to work on trauma, grief, relationship patterns, and life transitions from several angles.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Brooke talks with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful in early sessions. She adjusts methods over time and offers options so people can try things and notice what helps most.
Online therapy with Brooke is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions can use less bandwidth and fit a shorter break. Live chat and text messaging can work for check-ins, brief support, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into different schedules and routines.
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