About Brooke
Brooke Mckenzie is a licensed clinical social worker in Pennsylvania with 20 years of experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, recover from trauma and abuse, and work through depression. Brooke aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She meets people where they are and helps them take the next step forward. Brooke adapts conversations and plans to fit each person’s needs. She uses practical strategies to address sleep, eating, parenting strain, anger, and self-esteem concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing career changes, intimacy and relationship challenges, and complex conditions such as bipolar disorder and ADHD. Her practice also focuses on issues that can underlie many struggles, including attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, and communication or commitment problems. Brooke has experience working with chronic illness, cancer, chronic pain, and co-occurring conditions.
She pays attention to how these challenges overlap and affect daily life. Scheduling is often focused in the evenings and on weekends, which can help people who work daytime hours. Brooke works with clients through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She encourages a steady, collaborative pace so people feel supported as they make changes. Brooke holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and brings two decades of practical clinical experience to her practice. She aims to be a steady ally while clients set and reach realistic goals.
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy options
Brooke draws on common evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building skills. One approach emphasizes learning practical coping skills to manage anxiety, mood swings, and stress, with exercises people can use between sessions. Another approach centers on processing trauma and past hurt in a paced way so it interferes less with daily life and relationships.Finding the right method is part of the work. Brooke treats selecting techniques as a collaborative process and will help clients test what fits their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or for people who benefit from written communication. These options offer flexibility for scheduling and for fitting therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English