About Brooke
Brooke Lesley welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, or big life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twelve years of experience and uses a practical, down-to-earth style. Sessions focus on what is happening for each person now and on steps to feel steadier and more able to cope.
Brooke pays close attention to how the body and mind interact. She helps people notice physical sensations that show how they are reacting to thoughts and memories.
Background and approach
That awareness becomes a tool for managing difficult emotions and moving through triggers with less shock and more control. Mindfulness and self-compassion are regular parts of her work. Brooke teaches simple practices you can use between sessions to reduce stress and build resilience.
Those skills aim to balance distressing thoughts with easier ways of relating to yourself. She also draws from attachment-based ideas and therapies that address how early relationships shape current patterns. Brooke uses these perspectives to help people understand relational habits, rebuild trust in themselves, and improve closeness where it matters.
Trauma processing approaches are part of her toolbox for people who carry painful memories. Sessions are paced to each person’s needs, and Brooke helps clients find the right rhythm for processing difficult material. Together, she and the person set goals and practical steps toward feeling more grounded and purposeful.
How Brooke’s approaches translate to online therapy
Brooke commonly blends attachment-based work and mindfulness practices in sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people change long-standing habits in relationships. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple grounding and breathing practices to reduce anxiety and increase present-moment awareness, which can help with stress, grief, and mood symptoms.Brooke views choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, comfort level, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try approaches and adjust the pace so the work fits the person’s needs and readiness.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for more direct interaction, phone sessions when video is not possible, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical needs and let people choose formats that match their energy and focus on a given day.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Oregon
- Languages
- English