About DeAnna
Dr. DeAnna Brookhart is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 27 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety alongside a broad range of concerns such as stress, addictions, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges.
She practices in Illinois and speaks English. Dr. Brookhart uses a client-centered style that keeps the person's goals in focus.
She blends that with practical methods like cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Motivational interviewing helps when people feel stuck or unsure about change.
Background and approach
She often works on concrete problems such as coping with life changes, grief, communication struggles, and intimacy-related issues. Her background also includes work with substance-related concerns, compassion fatigue, and caregiving stress. This variety has given her many ways to tailor sessions to each person.
Sessions typically focus on what someone wants to change and small steps to get there. Dr. Brookhart uses solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals and track progress.
She also pays attention to factors like body, social supports, and daily routines that affect wellbeing. Outside of practice she enjoys cooking, reading, family time, and trips to the beach. That practical, down-to-earth side informs how she works: direct, respectful, and goal-oriented.
If someone is ready to make changes, she aims to help them find clearer options and workable next steps.
How online approaches such as CBT and client-centered work together
Client-centered therapy starts by listening to what matters most to the person and shaping sessions around their goals. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort priorities, values, and what change would look like.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses clear strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills. This method tends to help with anxiety, mood shifts, and repetitive stress responses.
Motivational interviewing helps when motivation is mixed or people feel stuck. It uses gentle questions and reflections to strengthen a person’s own reasons for change and to plan small next steps.
Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. The therapist will talk through needs, goals, and personal preferences and then choose or combine methods together with the client. This collaborative process makes it easier to try different tools and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for fitting therapy into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can work for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, coaching-style exchanges, or written reflections between meetings. These options make it simpler to keep momentum, try tools in real time, and adapt session length to schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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