Dr. DeAnna Brookhart , LCPC

Dr. DeAnna Brookhart is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 27 years of clinical experience based in Illinois. She practices a client-centered, solution-focused approach and aims to help people move past stuck patterns. Dr. Brookhart focuses on issues like anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, and grief.

Her work tends to be practical and goal-oriented. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit when someone needs help finding the drive to change.

Dr. Brookhart often supports people facing family and parenting stress, blended family challenges, and communication problems. She also addresses career strain, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. Additional concerns she works with include body image, codependency, and coping with major life changes.

She has long experience in community mental health and private practice settings, bringing years of real-world work with individuals and relationships. That background shapes a straightforward style that focuses on what will help a person day to day.

Outside of sessions she enjoys cooking, reading, and time with family and pets. She sees starting therapy as a choice toward a different life and offers a supportive, collaborative stance as people take that step.

How therapy approaches translate to online sessions

Dr. Brookhart draws on client-centered work that prioritizes the person’s perspective and goals. In practice this means sessions start by listening to what matters most, then shaping goals together and checking progress over time.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot patterns of thinking that lead to distress and to test new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday problems because it gives concrete skills to try between sessions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, preferences, and goals and adjust methods as they go. Clients help choose what feels most useful, and plans are refined over time based on results.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow therapy to fit around work, family, and travel. Video lets people keep face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Text and live chat support ongoing reflection and quick check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to try tools in real life between meetings.