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Brooke Lesley, LCSW

  • Experience12 years
  • LocationOregon
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, and Grief
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Attachment-Based Therapy
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About Brooke

Brooke Lesley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on supporting people navigating stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and major life changes.

Background and approach

With 12 years of clinical experience, she blends trauma-informed care with attention to bodily experience so clients can better notice how sensations, beliefs, and memories shape daily reactions. Brooke emphasizes mindfulness and self-compassion as practical tools to reduce distress and strengthen resilience.

Her work centers on helping clients expand perspective beyond limiting self-beliefs to recognize strengths and possibilities. She draws on approaches such as Internal Family Systems, attachment-based work, client-centered listening, existential exploration, and EMDR to tailor care to individual needs.

Brooke approaches each person as the expert on their life and partners collaboratively to identify meaningful options for change, manage symptoms like depression, panic, or chronic stress, and address concerns ranging from relationship and intimacy issues to caregiving, chronic illness, and multicultural stressors.

Based in Oregon, she offers multiple ways to connect including video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging, and works with people seeking help for issues such as addictions, bipolar symptoms, sleep difficulties, compassion fatigue, and grief and loss.

Therapeutic approaches and online access

Brooke integrates Internal Family Systems to help people notice and relate to separate parts of themselves - this approach supports working with inner conflict, self-critical thoughts, and protective reactions in a gentle, exploratory way. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to explore relational patterns and safety in connections, which can be especially helpful for people addressing attachment issues, intimacy concerns, or patterns in important relationships. EMDR is offered as a trauma-focused tool that facilitates processing of distressing memories and their bodily impact when appropriate and agreed upon collaboratively.

Finding the best approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Brooke partners with each client to determine what methods fit their goals, symptoms, and preferences. She draws on these modalities alongside mindfulness and somatic awareness to tailor sessions rather than applying a single technique to every person.

Online therapy with Brooke is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for those balancing work, caregiving, or health limitations. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care from different locations and to choose the communication style that feels most accessible for each client.

Frequently asked questions

What types of concerns does Brooke commonly address?
She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, coping with life changes, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, sleep problems, career stress, bipolar disorder, depression, and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is trauma-informed and body-aware, incorporating mindfulness and self-compassion alongside approaches like Internal Family Systems and EMDR to help clients process experience and build resilience.
What is Brooke's professional background?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of clinical experience offering trauma-informed therapy and support for life transitions, grief, and related concerns.
Where is Brooke licensed and practicing?
She practices in Oregon and holds LCSW credentials as documented: OR LCSW L18111 and UT LCSW 9094604-3501.
Does Brooke offer services in languages other than English?
Sessions are provided in English; she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Brooke offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and needs.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are involved in starting therapy with Brooke?
To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseGriefSelf esteemCoping with life changes

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesSleeping disordersCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

Attachment issuesCancerCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDissociationDomestic violenceFamily of origin issuesGender dysphoriaGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingLife purposeMen's issuesMulticultural concernsPanic disorder and panic attacksPost-traumatic stressSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySomatizationWomen's issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyExistential TherapyEye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Mindfulness TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

12+ years

Licensed

Utah, Oregon

Languages

English