Valayshia Brookins is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Connecticut with nine years of experience.
01About Valayshia
Valayshia Brookins is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Connecticut with nine years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She aims to make first steps toward change feel manageable and supported.
She creates a calm space where clients can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings without judgment. Conversations are practical and direct. Valayshia helps people identify goals and small actions they can take between sessions.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses relationship strain, family conflict, and challenges tied to identity, including LGBT concerns. She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction, sleeping and eating struggles, and problems with self-esteem or anger. Life transitions and career shifts are included in this scope as well.
Valayshia pays attention to patterns such as abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, and communication problems. She also works with chronic illness or pain, isolation, and impulse control concerns. Sessions focus on what the client wants to change and how to get there step by step.
She offers several session formats to fit different needs, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Valayshia works in English and is not taking international clients.
02Credentials
- LPC (Connecticut)
- License 46.004388 · expires November 2026
- NPI
- 1467077149 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Valayshia lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
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04Online support
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Valayshia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people learn strategies to manage anxiety and mood swings by breaking problems into smaller steps and trying new behaviors between sessions. Another approach centers on processing trauma and reducing its day-to-day impact through guided conversations and coping skills that target triggers and stressful memories.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review concerns, goals, and preferences together and adjust methods as progress unfolds. This partnership helps tailor sessions so techniques match what feels useful and realistic for the client.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when nuance and visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief reflections, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum while working toward goals.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Valayshia address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family conflict, grief, addictions, and related concerns such as sleep, eating, and self-esteem.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her approach is straightforward and supportive. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical steps, and open conversation without judgment.
What is her professional background?
She has nine years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and behavioral concerns in Connecticut.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Connecticut.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits the client.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Valayshia?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time based on the therapist's availability.
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