About Brooke

I am a therapist who specializes in sexuality and relationships. I work with clients of all genders, sexual orientations, and relationship styles.

Before earning my Masters of Marriage and Family Therapy degree from UMass Boston, I was a sex educator, and I worked with parents and children in a few area schools, teaching about puberty. I’ve given workshops for parents about talking with their kids about sex and sexuality.

I’m a parent of two emerging adults, I’m a breast cancer survivor, and I am also a survivor of 9/11/01. I am white, and I am actively examining my own racist conditioning and the systemic racism in which I was raised and continue to exist inside of. This includes working in the United States mental health field, which has its own racist history.

I have been Questioning my own gender and sexuality for my whole life. I feel that my not-knowing stance has been personally helpful to be even more open minded than my professional training has guided me to be. I enjoy researching and learning about identity spectrums and all the varied ways we get to know ourselves and each other. I am not intimidated by confusion - I find that confusion is often powerful and very important. I do not expect to ever settle on a particular identity or orientation, and I’m pleased to report that I feel it is possible to understand life as an ongoing process of self.

Thus, not surprisingly, I feel that my best work is with clients who are dealing with confusion and anxiety about their bodies or their relationships. This includes clients who are struggling with sexuality, gender, relationship issues, body image problems, orgasm challenges, sexual pain, trauma, and differences of desire.

 I also work with clients who are dealing with illness, heartbreak, grief, aging, depression, anxiety, and sleep/wellness/self-care issues. 

Living in these times of war, genocide, climate displacement, and pandemic can be very trying. It feels frivolous to be talking about sex and sexuality. This shows my privilege; that I have the space to be talking in this way. However, the living still need to live.

I have received specialized training in:

Using therapy as a tool to combat internalized racism; therapy as a part of Black liberation

Working with LGBTQQIA+ clients

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

Working with clients who feel they are addicted to sex, porn, or other sexual input

Discernment Counseling (when divorce is on the table)