Brooke Ayoub, LMHC

Brooke Ayoub is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings five years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use when life feels overwhelming. She frames work around each person's goals and values and emphasizes steady progress over time.

Brooke uses a trauma-informed approach drawn from work in crisis intervention and suicide prevention. She has supported people with mood and anxiety concerns and with histories of trauma. Her background includes helping clients navigate relationship strain, career transitions, parenting stress, and the specific challenges that can come with midlife shifts.

Her training includes eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, and she blends that with acceptance and commitment ideas plus cognitive behavioral tools. She also brings techniques from client-centered and existential approaches to help people find clearer direction and meaning. Brooke incorporates mindfulness and elements of yoga when clients are open to those practices.

Brooke has experience assisting people with vocational goals through her training in vocational rehabilitation counseling and related work with state vocational services. This informs practical planning around work, accommodations, and returning to employment when that is a priority.

In sessions she listens first, helps set manageable goals, and teaches concrete skills for handling stress, anger, low motivation, and relationship problems. She encourages small, sustainable changes so people can feel more capable and move toward a more balanced life.

How these approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on identifying personal values and taking small committed steps that align with those values. It is often used for stress, anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce distress and improve mood. It is commonly applied to anxiety, depression, and coping skills training. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing involves structured processing of traumatic memories and related symptoms and is used when past events continue to cause strong distress.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest a plan that may combine methods. The client and therapist review progress together and adapt the plan as needed.

The original biography did not list which remote formats are offered, so confirm available session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time for appointments. It also lets people practice skills in the settings where they live and work, and helps maintain continuity of care when schedules or locations change.