Heather Brooks, LMFT

Heather Brooks is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 13 years of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, and life transitions. She emphasizes a compassionate, strengths-based approach that supports clients in identifying their existing resources and building new ones to manage overwhelming feelings and difficult circumstances. Heather creates a respectful, nonjudgmental therapeutic atmosphere where people can explore feelings of loneliness, heartbreak, entrapment, or self-doubt while working toward practical, individualized solutions.

Heather has a particular passion for grief, loss, and bereavement work and specializes in guiding clients through the process of emotional completion - processing unmet hopes, expectations, and the losses that shape daily life. Over time she has combined client-centered and cognitive behavioral methods with dialectical techniques to address anxiety, depression, high expectations, strained relationships, job pressures, and substance use concerns. In recent years she has shifted much of her practice toward solution-focused strategies aimed at symptom relief and coping with the pressures of everyday life.

Her practice also includes support for parenting and family dynamics, intimacy and commitment challenges, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, and compassion fatigue. Heather works collaboratively with each person to tailor treatment to their goals, values, and strengths while helping them move toward clearer purpose and improved functioning.