Dr. DeAnna Brookhart, LCPC

Dr. DeAnna Brookhart is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois. She brings 27 years of clinical experience and a practical, client-centered style to sessions. Dr. Brookhart focuses on everyday problems like anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, addiction, grief, and caregiver stress. She also lists aging and geriatric issues among her additional focus areas.

Her approach emphasizes listening first and then working together toward concrete changes. She uses client-centered methods and draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape sessions. That means sessions often balance talking through problems with setting small, doable steps forward.

Dr. Brookhart describes therapy as a whole-person practice that looks at mind, body, feelings, and social life. She brings long experience from community mental health settings and private practice, which informs how she helps people manage life changes and complicated stress. Practical tools and clear goals are common parts of her work.

She also supports people facing issues such as caregiver stress, blended family challenges, intimacy concerns, and coping after loss. Her style aims to be straightforward and respectful, helping people rebuild day-to-day functioning and sense of choice.

Outside work she enjoys cooking, reading, family time, and beach travel. If someone is ready to take a first step, she offers a collaborative, steady presence to help them move toward better balance.

How specific approaches guide online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what she hears, and helps clarify goals and priorities. This approach helps people who want a supportive space to talk through feelings and decisions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and emotions connect. It breaks problems into manageable steps and uses practical exercises to change patterns that keep someone stuck. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems with daily routines.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best for their needs and goals. Choices are revisited as progress is made so the plan can change with what is working.

Confirm current session options before booking, since formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let someone continue care when relocating within the same region. Talk with the therapist during the matching process to learn which session arrangements she currently offers.