About Brook
Brook Algarin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people regain calm and clarity. She works with adults who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, past trauma, or struggles with self-esteem. Brook writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person.
She often starts by mapping what a typical day feels like and where anxiety or old memories interrupt it. Sessions use practical tools from cognitive behavior approaches and mindfulness to reduce worry and improve sleep.
Background and approach
Brook also brings gentle work on painful memories when trauma or abuse is part of the picture. Parents who are exhausted by juggling responsibilities can find ways to manage stress and rebuild energy. People facing relationship or family problems get help naming patterns and trying different responses.
She also supports those coping with life transitions like career change, fertility challenges, or midlife questions. Brook has worked in counseling for 25 years in South Carolina and draws on client-centered ways of working that keep each person's goals front and center. Treatment plans are shaped to fit real life, with practical tools people can use between sessions.
She speaks English and offers sessions by video, phone, chat, or text-based messaging. When someone is tired of pretending everything is fine, Brook helps them explore what change would look like. The work focuses on small, doable steps toward feeling more present and enjoying everyday moments again.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experience, with the therapist following the client's lead and offering support that fits each situation. This approach helps people name what they want to change and decide the steps to get there.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety or low mood going and teaches practical strategies to shift them. It is useful for worry, panic attacks, sleep problems, and work-life stress because it gives concrete skills to practice between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers tools for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and reducing self-destructive patterns through skills training in mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brook collaborates with each person to select and adjust methods based on goals, needs, and what feels helpful. That exploration continues as therapy progresses so techniques are tailored over time.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit counseling into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without a commute, phone sessions work when bandwidth or cameras are limited, and live chat or text messaging are useful for quick check-ins or reflecting between appointments. These options provide flexibility so people can use the format that best supports their progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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