About DeAnna
Dr. DeAnna Brookhart is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who blends client-centered care with practical problem-solving. She brings 27 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship difficulties, and other life challenges.
Dr. Brookhart focuses on clear goals and small steps that make daily life more manageable. Her work often combines talk-based support with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change.
How DeAnna works
Solution-focused methods are used to identify strengths and build forward momentum. Dr. Brookhart helps with many concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, parenting strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people facing complex situations such as blended family problems, caregiver stress, codependency, and recovery from domestic violence. She addresses both mood shifts and mood disorders like bipolar when they affect daily functioning. She works with people across the LGBT community and offers practical coaching around life transitions, communication, and commitment struggles.
Her approach emphasizes the whole person - mind, body, emotions, and social needs - rather than focusing only on symptoms. Clients connect with her from Illinois via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Dr.
Brookhart invites people ready to make changes to start with a simple matching process and then schedule sessions that fit their lives.
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What DeAnna works with
The areas below are the ones DeAnna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Using Client-Centered and CBT Approaches Online
Dr. Brookhart uses client-centered therapy to listen closely to each person's goals and priorities, then shapes sessions around what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes in behavior, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss options with clients and adjust methods based on individual needs, goals, and preferences. Together they decide which strategies to try and measure progress along the way.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face-to-face when they want visual contact. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching, and people who prefer typed conversation. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy lives and help maintain continuity during transitions.
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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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