Brooke Santos

Brooke Santos, LICSW, LCSW, CSW offers a calm, practical way to work through stress, anxiety, grief, and shifting life roles. She focuses on helping people build self-compassion, improve communication, and strengthen coping skills when life feels overwhelming.

She centers sessions on clear goals and everyday tools. That can mean practicing how to speak up, learning ways to handle anxious moments, or working through loss step by step. Conversations move at a steady, understandable pace so clients can try new responses between meetings.

Brooke has six years of clinical experience and holds an MA and social work credentials listed as LICSW, LCSW, and CSW. Her background includes supporting people with mood difficulties, post-traumatic stress, and the long-term strain of chronic illness and caregiving.

She also helps clients who are exploring identity, sexuality, and questions of life purpose. Sessions often focus on reducing isolation, rebuilding self-esteem, and repairing the relationship people have with themselves.

Brooke aims to create a collaborative plan tailored to each person. She works in a way that honors individual experience and supports practical steps toward feeling more stable and connected.

How evidence-based methods translate to online care

Brooke draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and emotion processing. One common approach helps people learn concrete coping strategies for anxiety and stress, such as breathing and grounding practices, behavioral experiments, and stepwise exposure to feared situations. That work supports people dealing with social anxiety, phobias, and daily worry.

Another approach emphasizes processing difficult emotions like grief and shame by naming feelings, tracking patterns, and practicing self-compassion. This kind of work can help with recovery after loss, chronic illness strain, or feelings of isolation. Both approaches are practical and aim to give tools people can use between sessions.

Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Brooke will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and life context and adjust methods over time. Together they will decide which techniques fit the client's needs and pace.

The biography does not list specific online or in-person formats. Please confirm available session formats before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can keep appointments during work breaks or caregiving responsibilities.