Brooke Mckenzie
Practical support for stress and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW, LICSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brooke
Brooke Mckenzie is a licensed clinical social worker based in Pennsylvania who focuses on a wide range of life and mental health concerns. She has 20 years of professional experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. She also supports clients facing trauma, parenting challenges, sleep and eating difficulties, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Brooke aims to meet people where they are and offer practical, straightforward help. Brooke favors a respectful and compassionate approach in sessions.
Background and approach
She adjusts conversations and plans to fit each person’s situation instead of using a one-size-fits-all script. Her work also covers issues such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, anger, self-esteem, and coping with major life changes.
Over two decades she has worked with many presenting problems and additional focus areas including attachment issues, blended family issues, body image, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and communication problems. She brings steady clinical judgment and a calm presence to difficult topics like abandonment, personality concerns, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.
Brooke holds the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and the Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW and LICSW. She offers a mix of evening and weekend hours to accommodate varied schedules. For parents and adults juggling busy lives, she aims to create conversations that lead to clear next steps.
If someone is ready to try therapy, Brooke encourages that first step and helps shape a plan that fits their goals and schedule.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit busy lives
Brooke uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear, usable tools. One common approach is practical problem-focused work that identifies specific patterns and builds step-by-step coping skills for anxiety, stress, and daily functioning. This helps when symptoms get in the way of parenting, work, or sleep.She also uses supportive, trauma-informed conversation to address the effects of past abuse and ongoing trauma. That style emphasizes safety, pacing, and naming what’s happening so people can move toward recovery without feeling rushed. For mood disorders and complex cases, Brooke integrates mood-stabilizing strategies and structured routines to help manage bipolar symptoms and disruptive mood patterns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Brooke collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life demands. She adjusts plans over time based on what is and isn’t working.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to connect during evenings or weekends and to keep therapy consistent when life gets busy. Brooke aims to make regular sessions workable for people juggling family and career responsibilities.
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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
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