Brooke Whitley, ma, LMFt
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Brooke specializes in anxiety, depression, trauma, couples counseling, and family life stressors. Brooke received a Masters of Arts in Counseling (Marriage, Family, and Couples specialization) from the University of Nevada, Reno, completing a 3 year graduate-level education, as well as completing an additional 4 year anxiety treatment center internship and clinical practice. This extensive 6 plus years of education and training (1 year overlap of grad school and internship) equips Brooke to diagnose, evaluate, and treat a full scope of mental health conditions. Brooke has 15 years of experience utilizing Therapeutic Lifestyle Change interventions as a personal trainer and nutrition coach as well. Brooke takes a positive and affirming approach to all identities and relationships.
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Brooke is extensively trained in family systems concepts, Beck Institute CBT for Anxiety and Depression, Motivational Interviewing for Addictions, Sexual Assault Prevention and Education, and Meyers-Briggs Personality and Spiritual Formations. Brooke utilizes evidenced-based practices including Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Prolonged Exposure, Narrative Exposure, Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy for Understanding Emotion Regulation, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Family Genograms, Adlerian Family Therapy, and Gottman Couples Counseling research. Brooke is a multiculturally-competent counselor and counsels largely from a humanistic perspective. She treats individuals, couples, families, adolescents, and children.
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Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
Cognitive Processing for PTSD (CPT)
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Training
Motivational Interviewing
Relationship Skills and Family Role-Play
Communication Skills
Interpersonal Effectiveness -
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Prologed Exposure (PE)
Somatic Experiencing, Relaxation Techniques
Nutrition and Exercise Guidance
Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (TLC) -
Systemic Adlerian (Family Systems)
Attachment-Based Therapy
Experiential Family Therapy
Child-Parent Psychotherapy
Couples, Families, Children (Play utilized)
Nature-Based Therapy
Deep Breathing Technique and Training