Jessica Brooks (she/her)

For over a decade, I have been involved in clinical care and foundation and federally funded research focused on describing methods of chronic pain coping, especially focusing on the development and implementation of new counseling and psychotherapy interventions for co-occurring chronic pain and depression for middle-aged and older persons.

For over a decade, I have been involved in clinical care and foundation and federally funded research focused on describing methods of chronic pain coping, especially focusing on the development and implementation of new counseling and psychotherapy interventions for co-occurring chronic pain and depression for middle-aged and older persons.

For over a decade, I have provided general counseling, career and vocational counseling, and/or psychotherapy to individuals living with varying anxiety concerns, including generalized anxiety disorder, OCD, adjustment disorder with anxiety, PTSD, and other conditions such as borderline personality disorder causing anxiety in primary care settings, outpatient mental health clinics, and through online therapy.

Since 2010, I have been involved in clinical care and foundation and federally funded research focused on describing how persons with chronic pain cope with their pain. I have also worked on the development and implementation of new counseling and psychotherapy interventions for co-occurring chronic pain and depression among middle-aged and older persons.

Dating back to 2005, I have either provided general counseling, case management, career and vocational counseling, and/or psychotherapy to individuals living with severe recurrent depression with or without psychotic features, single episode depression, or other depressive disorders in community-based mental health programs, primary care settings, outpatient mental health clinics, and through online therapy. I have also developed new self-management and counseling methods for depression.

For over a decade, I have provided general counseling, career and vocational counseling, and/or psychotherapy to individuals living with varying anxiety concerns, including generalized anxiety disorder, OCD, adjustment disorder with anxiety, PTSD, and other conditions such as borderline personality disorder causing anxiety in primary care settings, outpatient mental health clinics, at VA hospitals/clinics, and through online therapy.

Dating back to 2005, I have either provided general counseling, case management, career and vocational counseling, and/or psychotherapy to individuals living with severe recurrent depression with or without psychotic symptoms, bipolar depression, single episode depression, or other depressive disorders in community mental health, primary care, outpatient mental health clinics, and through online therapy. I have also developed new self-management and counseling methods for depression.

Dating back to 2005, I have either provided general counseling, case management, career and vocational counseling, and/or psychotherapy to individuals living with severe recurrent depression with or without psychotic symptoms, single episode depression, or other depressive disorders in community-based mental health programs, primary care settings, outpatient mental health clinics, and through online therapy. I have also developed new self-management and counseling methods for depression.

For over a decade, I have provided general counseling, career and vocational counseling, and/or psychotherapy to individuals living with varying anxiety concerns, including generalized anxiety disorder, OCD, adjustment disorder with anxiety, PTSD, and other conditions such as borderline personality disorder causing anxiety in primary care settings, outpatient mental health clinics, at VA hospitals/clinics, and through online therapy. I have extensive training in therapies specific to anxiety.

Since 2010, I have been involved in clinical care and foundation and federally funded research focused on describing how persons with chronic pain cope with their pain. I have also worked on the development and implementation of new counseling and psychotherapy interventions for co-occurring chronic pain and depression among middle-aged and older persons. Given these experiences, I can be a resource/reference on various coping strategies that might be helpful for living with chronic pain.

I have extensive experience with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) methods including acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, behavioral activation, and recovery-oriented cognitive therapy. Although I think goal-oriented, evidence-based approaches stemming from CBT are important for success in therapy, I also maintain a positive, flexible, person-centered philosophy in psychotherapy, as I consider therapy to be both an art and a science.