Dr. April Brewer, LPC

Dr. April Brewer combines military medical training, forensic and court-based counseling, veterans care, and private practice experience to offer broad clinical expertise across the lifespan. She served as an active duty U.S. Air Force Medic and later worked as a psychometrician for ages three through adult in a U.S. Navy civilian role. Her background also includes work as a DUI and drug court counselor, a mental health therapist at a Veterans Affairs medical center, a behavioral health treatment court coordinator and mental health clinician in superior and state courts, and service as a Military and Family Life Counselor on Department of Defense installations. In private practice she has provided individual, couples, family, and group therapy, along with psychoeducation and consultation for clients of all ages.

Dr. Brewer completed a Doctor of Behavioral Health - DBH - at Arizona State University, emphasizing integrated behavioral health care designed to manage behavioral health programs and address chronic medical conditions. She also holds a Master of Science in Clinical Counseling, a Master of Science in Human Services, and a Bachelor of Science in Human and Social Services Administration from Bellevue University. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - which denotes clinical licensure to provide counseling services.

Her clinical approach is deliberately eclectic, drawing from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally-focused work, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing to address relationship and family concerns, intimacy and parenting challenges, trauma and grief, mood disorders, addictions, anxiety and stress, sleep difficulties, and many other life transitions. Dr. Brewer aims to tailor care to each client’s needs and goals and is prepared to begin work when a client is ready.