About DeAnna
Dr. DeAnna Brookhart brings a client-centered, solution-focused style to her counseling work, drawing on 27 years of experience as an LCPC in Illinois.
Background and approach
She emphasizes practical strategies alongside empathetic listening, integrating cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing when addressing issues like addictions, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, grief, trauma, and compassion fatigue. Her approach blends attention to thoughts and behaviors with respect for each person’s goals and values.
Dr. Brookhart’s practice also covers a wide range of related concerns including intimacy and communication problems, parenting and blended family issues, codependency, career and life-change transitions, bipolar disorder, and domestic violence.
She favors a holistic view that considers emotional, social, and physical factors when helping clients build coping skills and improve functioning. Sessions are available in multiple online formats to accommodate different preferences and schedules, and she works in English with clients located in Illinois.
Her Illinois LCPC credential is IL LCPC 180003683.
Practical Therapeutic Methods for Online Care
Dr. Brookhart commonly integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy into her online work. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathic listening and collaboration so clients guide the pace and topics of sessions while feeling heard. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behavior patterns and teaching concrete techniques to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, addictions, and stress.Choosing the right method is collaborative and part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and needs during early sessions and adapt techniques over time, combining client-centered support with evidence-informed strategies like CBT or motivational interviewing to match what a client finds most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for varied schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to attend appointments from different locations, fit sessions into busy lives, and maintain continuity of care when in-person meetings are not possible. Licensed professionals can tailor format and pace so therapy fits each person’s routine and goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English