Brooke Lesley
Compassionate trauma-informed care
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Utah, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brooke
Brooke Lesley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and changes that come with life transitions. She writes plainly and listens carefully so parents and caregivers can talk through immediate concerns. Sessions emphasize noticing how the body responds to thoughts and feelings, then using that awareness to make small, practical shifts.
Brooke brings 12 years of clinical experience to her work in Oregon.
Background and approach
She uses mindfulness and self-compassion practices to reduce distress and build resilience. She also integrates talk-based methods and somatic awareness to address intense memories and emotional reactions. In sessions, she treats each person as the expert on their own life.
Conversations center on identifying strengths and practical steps that feel doable. Clients learn skills to manage panic, sleeping difficulties, and relationship or identity-related stressors. Brooke draws on evidence-informed tools such as attachment-focused strategies and EMDR when appropriate.
These are used alongside client-centered listening to help people process trauma and find meaning after loss or major change. Her aim is to support steady progress, not quick fixes. Her practice includes work with issues often seen in caregiving, chronic illness, and multicultural contexts.
Therapy may include attention to bodily sensations, guided mindfulness, and gradual steps toward clearer values and life purpose.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current responses. It helps people understand their closeness needs and make different, healthier choices in relationships.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories. It pairs guided attention with memory work to reduce the intensity of painful images and reactions.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to notice thoughts, feelings, and body sensations without judgment. These skills support managing anxiety, sleep problems, and overwhelm in day-to-day life.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking how they land, and adjusting the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it possible to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue work during transitions, and use brief check-ins or longer conversations as needed. Licensed professionals can adapt the tools above to work effectively across these different formats.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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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
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