Brooke Lockwood-Cole, LCMHC

I believe that each client is their own best expert, and has come to counseling because they have hit a log jam or bump in the road. Often times they have unresolved issues in their past that have been triggered by current issues that have the same theme. Also, some clients come to counseling due to current situations that are more short-term. My counseling style is very respectful, collaborative, going at a pace that meets the client’s needs. Validation of the client’s strengths, feelings and stressors is key to helping them transcend traumas and negative experience of the past and present. My counseling approach is eclectic and humanistic, utilizing various evidenced based interventions that meet the individual’s presenting problem and temperament. Such approaches or modalities include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectic behavioral therapy (DBT), mindfulness, coping skills training (breathing, visualization, self-hypnosis, etc.), grief /bereavement work, hypnosis, solution