About John
John Brooks is a licensed counselor and marriage and family therapist practicing in Louisiana. He holds Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) credentials and brings ten years of clinical experience to his work.
Background and approach
He meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that make life feel more manageable. He helps people who are facing addiction and relationship struggles.
He also works with concerns like anxiety, depression, trauma and grief. His practice includes support for intimacy issues, parenting strain, self-esteem problems, and stress related to caregiving or chronic illness.
John centers sessions on the client’s knowledge of their own life. He uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs.
In session he listens without judgment, highlights strengths, and helps set small, realistic goals. Sessions often include learning new coping skills, trying short exercises, and practicing patterns that improve daily life.
He draws from methods such as acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, attachment-focused work, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches. John also supports people dealing with less common or layered issues such as adoption and foster care concerns, attachment challenges, neurodiversity, body image, and complex medical or caregiving stress.
He aims to make therapy a steady, clear process for people who want change. To begin, he asks people to share their story and priorities so sessions can be tailored.
He emphasizes collaboration and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings and taking steps that matter to you despite them; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, mood issues, and coping with stress. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relationship patterns shape how people relate and react, and it can be helpful for intimacy and relationship concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. John will talk with each person about goals and preferences and tailor methods to fit those needs. That collaborative process helps pick techniques that feel useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to consistent care. Video calls let people read nonverbal cues and do exercises together. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing, want moment-to-moment support, or need help that fits into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy regular and practical for varied schedules and lifestyles.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English