About John
John Brooks is a Louisiana-based licensed professional counselor (LPC) and licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 10 years of practice. He focuses on helping people manage anxiety, addictions, relationship and family strains, and other life stresses. He sees a wide range of concerns and aims to create a calm, straightforward space to begin work.
Brooks believes each person knows their story best. He draws on clients' strengths and practical steps to move past stuck patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and aim to build skills people can use between meetings. He uses common-sense techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take actions that match what matters to them.
Attachment-based ideas inform how past relationships shape current trust and closeness. Brooks also blends client-centered listening with tools from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions and improve coping. This mix supports work on grief, trauma, self-esteem, and challenges like ADHD, depression, and bipolar concerns.
People who feel overwhelmed by life changes, caregiving stress, or intimacy issues can expect clear options and step-by-step plans. He works with individuals on parenting questions, career stress, body image, and many other concerns listed on his profile. Getting started is described simply and practically for those taking the first step.
Approaches that guide online work
John Brooks draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different responses; this approach is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is about clarifying what matters and taking small steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult, which can help with grief, addictions, and motivation. Attachment-based ideas focus on how past relationships influence current trust and closeness, useful for intimacy and relationship issues.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up day to day. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls are close to in-person meetings and work well for in-depth conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send shorter updates or get support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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