About Valayshia
Valayshia Brookins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Connecticut with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and major life changes. Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at making daily life feel more manageable.
Brookins creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through difficult feelings. She emphasizes honest conversation and steady support.
Background and approach
Sessions center on what matters most to each person and on small, realistic steps toward change. Her background includes work with a wide range of concerns such as relationship struggles, grief, addiction, attention challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also helps people facing issues like body image, chronic illness, codependency, and communication breakdowns.
That variety means she draws on many strategies to meet different needs. In sessions she listens first, then helps clients set clear goals and try practical tools. The emphasis is on skills people can use between appointments to reduce anxiety and cope with stress.
She aims to build confidence and a stronger sense of direction. People who value direct, steady guidance often find her style helpful. She supports clients as they take the small steps that lead to bigger changes.
Her work is collaborative, centered on listening and on making progress at a comfortable pace.
Approaches that guide online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building practical skills. One common approach emphasizes learning coping skills for anxiety and stress - clients practice breathing, grounding, and activity changes to reduce immediate symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. Another approach centers on processing trauma and difficult emotions in a paced way so memories feel less overwhelming and reactions become easier to manage.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and comfort level. That choice can shift over time as needs change, and adjustments are made together so therapy stays useful and realistic.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit support around work or caregiving and to use brief, focused communication between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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