Valayshia Brookins , LPC

Valayshia Brookins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Connecticut with nine years of clinical experience. She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and major life changes. Valayshia aims to create an open environment where clients can speak honestly about difficult feelings.

Her work often focuses on relationship and family concerns, parenting struggles, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people dealing with addictions, grief, eating and sleeping problems, and challenges tied to self-esteem and body image. She brings steady, practical support to people facing chronic illness, chronic pain, or disability.

Valayshia pays attention to how attachment and abandonment wounds shape daily life. She helps people manage impulsivity, anger, guilt, shame, and isolation. Career questions and finding life purpose are also areas she addresses in sessions.

Sessions are framed around collaboration and clear goals. Conversations are direct and compassionate, with concrete steps to try between meetings. Valayshia encourages clients to build skills for coping and to practice new ways of relating to themselves and others.

People who want a thoughtful clinician for emotional work often find this approach helpful. She offers a steady presence for those seeking change, growth, or relief from ongoing stressors.

Approaches and Online Care for Emotional Recovery

Valayshia draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on present difficulties and practical change. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replace them with clearer, more useful ways of coping; this is helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Another approach looks at attachment and past relationship wounds to understand current relationship patterns and intimacy struggles; this helps when abandonment, codependency, or communication problems are central concerns.

Choosing the right approach is a joint effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past, then adapt methods together. Sessions can shift over time as needs change, with check-ins to make sure the work remains useful.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different rhythms of life. Video works well for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, shorter coaching-style support, or when fitting a session into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep consistent care while juggling work, parenting, or health limitations.