Brooke Lesley , LCSW

Brooke Lesley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience working as a trauma-informed therapist. She centers her work on trauma, life transitions, and grief, and places strong emphasis on the ways the body and mind interact. Lesley notices how body sensations accompany thoughts, beliefs, and both past and present experiences, and she helps clients learn to read these signals as they navigate stressful situations and change.

Too often people become focused on negative self-beliefs and miss the broader picture of their strengths. To widen that perspective, Lesley integrates mindfulness and self-compassion practices into sessions; these tools are used to support emotion regulation, reduce reactivity, and build resilience over time. She approaches therapy from the belief that individuals are the experts on their own lives and that they possess innate capacities for growth and recovery.

Working collaboratively, Lesley explores options with clients to create a more meaningful, empowered life. Her style combines attunement to bodily experience with practical strategies to manage distress and move through transitions with greater ease.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relational patterns shape current connections and emotional responses. In practice this approach helps clients understand relationship dynamics, repair attachment wounds, and build more secure ways of relating to others.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured method used to help people process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional intensity. It can be helpful for those coping with past trauma, intrusive memories, or strong bodily reactions tied to specific events.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and gentle attention to bodily experience and thought patterns. It supports emotion regulation, reduces rumination, and strengthens capacity to respond rather than react to stressors.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work itself. Lesley collaborates with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adapting techniques over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity during life transitions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to provide consistent care, tailor interventions to the medium that feels most comfortable, and increase access for people who might have barriers to in-person appointments.