Brook Algarin, LPC

Brook Algarin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people who feel stuck under a calm surface. She listens for the moments that keep you replaying the past, feeling exhausted, or guarding yourself from others. Brook invites straightforward conversation about what change could look like for you.

With 25 years of experience, she blends practical methods with a warm, client-centered stance. Sessions focus on clear goals like easing anxiety, improving sleep, or managing mood shifts. Brook uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people shift unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills.

She also offers approaches such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for processing traumatic memories, and mindfulness techniques to increase calm and present-moment awareness. Those methods are introduced at a pace that fits each person.

Brook works with a wide range of concerns including stress, parenting pressures, relationship and family issues, and trauma and abuse. She helps people who are coping with depression, bipolar symptoms, panic, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.

In sessions Brook aims to make room for practical change rather than labels. Conversations focus on what is bothering you now and on steps you can try between meetings. She encourages self-kindness while teaching tools to manage difficult moments.

If you are ready to move past replaying old scenes, she will talk with you about what realistic change could look like and how to get there.

How Brook’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals first and guides each session by what matters most to the client. This approach helps people set small, practical goals and decide which skills to try between meetings.

Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep problems because it breaks down problems into manageable steps and skills to practice.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, is a method used to process distressing memories so they cause less disruption in daily life. When appropriate, it is introduced carefully and paced to the person’s needs.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and pace. That means trying skills, checking how they feel, and adjusting plans as needed.

Confirm session format options before booking since specific formats are not listed in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allowing shorter check-ins or sessions that avoid travel. They also let people use mindfulness and CBT exercises between meetings to keep progress moving.