TRACY BROOKS (she/her/hers), Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate – Focusing on Adolescents (pre-teen through 20-something). Also open to working with individuals, especially those with trauma and neurodivergence.
Availability flexible based on client needs. Online and in-person.
Accepting BCBS Insurance and Private Pay.
My focus is on neurodiversity, trauma, anxiety disorders, grief, LGBTQIA+, walk-and-talk sessions, animal-assisted therapy (including equine therapy), attachment disorders, mood disorders, and personality disorders. I also offer support to those who work with kids, such as youth mentors, teachers, social workers, etc. Direct care can be hard; I can help you help them!
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space;
In that space, is our power to choose our response;
In our response, lies our growth and our freedom.”
~Viktor Frankl
Being a human being is hard. Being in any kind of relationship, even with yourself, is hard. Not being in a relationship is hard. Having a brain, a heart, that doesn’t seem to be in sync with those you see around you is hard.
And yet, “hard” is a perception, a series of choices, a skill that hasn’t been learned yet, a really uncomfortable feeling; all things that can be worked with. And what’s really hard is feeling alone in your experience. That’s why we work together – so that you never have to feel alone in your challenges. And together we move through what’s hard and get you to a much better feeling place.
For the last 6 years, I’ve worked as a youth mentor in a residential trauma center, as an intensive in-home counselor, and as a primary therapist with tweens, teens, and young adults, their siblings, their parents, their friends, and their partners.
I like to look at things with a big picture lens. We don’t exist in vacuums, nor do the things that concern us, so I like to look at the systems around the individual for a greater understanding of all the parts that affect the whole. I also like to look at those parts that form within us to protect us from the struggles we have faced.
This can mean looking at family histories, trauma histories, intergenerational and interpersonal relationships, cultural influences, belief systems, and all the patterns inherent in all of those systems. It also means looking at all the patterns and systems within us. With such a big picture lens, the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are affecting the present become more clearly understandable, and when we can understand them, we can heal them.
Change happens when healing happens. I believe that most things that need to change can be reframed into a problem that can be solved. And while the solutions can look vastly different, I believe that whatever is going on in your life, we can find a way to help you manage it.
I do sessions online and in-person. In-person can be either in the office or in the park. I love incorporating movement in the form of walking into therapy, so sessions in the park include Meeka the Therapy Dog (her love language is touch and she is a Queen Cuddler!)
I know life can be kinda overwhelming so let me know what your ideal time and place is for sessions and we’ll see what we can make work. Sessions can be the regular 50 minutes or we can look at intensives to give us time to dig into stuff. The intensive sessions have to be private pay.
I am trained in Motivational Interviewing, trauma work, child and adolescent disorders, CPS (Collaborative and Proactive Solutions), RBTIC (Relationship-Based Trauma Informed Care) and commonly utilize skills from: IFS (Internal Family Systems), somatic work, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), Animal-Assisted Therapy (Canine and Equine), SFBT (Solution-Focused Brief Therapy), and Choice Theory/Reality Therapy among others.
I work from a person-centered foundation; you are the expert of you, I am someone with some useful skills to walk beside you for a while. I also have a love of different spiritual philosophies, including yoga, dream analysis, astrology, and symbolic interpretation tools like Tarot. I figure, the more tools we have available to us on our journey, the better off we are!
If you’d like to further explore our therapeutic fit, please click on the link below to schedule a free, 15-minute Exploratory Call to see how working with me may help. You can also call or text (828) 761-3149.