John Brooks
Compassionate help for family and relationship stress
- Credentials
- LPC, LMFT
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About John
John Brooks is a licensed counselor and marriage and family therapist based in Louisiana with ten years of experience. He holds LPC and LMFT credentials and has focused much of his practice on relationship and family concerns, addictions, and stress-related problems. He approaches new clients with a straightforward, respectful style that values each person’s strengths.
Taking a first step toward help is framed as a brave choice he honors in sessions.
Background and approach
In the room he treats people as the experts on their own lives. He listens first, then offers practical tools drawn from therapies that match each person’s needs. Conversations are direct but warm, aimed at reducing overwhelm and clarifying small, manageable next steps.
His background includes work with a broad set of concerns such as parenting strains, intimacy issues, anxiety, trauma, grief, mood disorders, and career stress. That variety has shaped a flexible approach that mixes skill-building with deeper, attachment-focused work when needed. He draws from several well-established methods including acceptance-based and cognitive strategies, attachment-focused work, and client-centered conversation.
Those tools are used to address coping skills, communication patterns, and emotional regulation. Sessions often include hands-on practices and clear takeaways to try between meetings. John aims to collaborate with each person to set goals and measure progress.
He supports people through life changes and complicated family dynamics while keeping the work practical and focused. If someone wants help sorting through family or relationship stress, he offers a steady, experienced presence.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and relationship work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them. It encourages choosing actions that reflect personal values, which can be useful for managing anxiety, stress, and life transitions.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. It looks at patterns of closeness and distance and helps people practice new ways of connecting that improve family and relational dynamics.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. John will work together with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaborative process can mean trying different tools until something feels effective.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules. These formats allow regular check-ins, practice between sessions, and flexible ways to reach support during stressful times.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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
Next step
Talk to John
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point