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Brooke Wahlund, LMFT

  • Experience3 years
  • LocationCalifornia
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Grief
  • LanguagesEnglish
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About Brooke

Brooke Wahlund is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California who centers her work on a humanistic, interpersonal approach.

Background and approach

She focuses on helping people process strong emotions, increase self-awareness, and draw on personal strengths to navigate stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem struggles, life transitions, and ADHD-related concerns. Brooke emphasizes building a supportive therapeutic relationship early on so clients feel more comfortable engaging with the work.

With three years of professional experience, Brooke offers a calm, nonjudgmental space for exploring challenges such as compassion fatigue, intimacy issues, relationship and family concerns, sleep difficulties, career questions, bipolar mood management, and coaching needs. Additional focus areas include infidelity, jealousy, self-harm, and issues commonly faced by young adults.

Her style highlights collaboration and respect for each person’s expertise in their own life, helping clients identify practical steps and strengths to move forward. Brooke works in English and provides sessions through several online formats to allow flexibility for different schedules and needs.

She aims to support clients as they build safety, connection, and momentum toward their goals.

Evidence-Informed Approaches and Online Care

Brooke draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques delivered through a humanistic, interpersonal lens. Humanistic work focuses on building a trusting relationship and helping clients explore their values, emotions, and strengths to support growth and self-awareness. Interpersonal strategies aim to improve how people relate to others by identifying patterns in relationships and developing clearer communication and connection skills. These approaches can help with anxiety, grief, self-esteem, relationship difficulties, and challenges associated with ADHD.

Choosing the right approach is an individualized process. Brooke collaborates with clients to determine which techniques match their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting methods as progress and understanding evolve. The therapy relationship itself is used as a space to test new ways of coping and relating, with the therapist guiding adjustments along the way.

Online delivery offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. These formats allow licensed professionals to provide consistent support across various schedules and locations within California, helping clients maintain momentum and access help when they need it.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Brooke commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, LGBT concerns, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related problems, sleeping difficulties, parenting and career concerns, bipolar challenges, coaching goals, and ADHD among other areas.
How would you describe her therapeutic approach and style?
Brooke practices from a humanistic, interpersonal perspective that emphasizes connection, empathy, and building safety in the early stages of therapy. The approach invites clients to explore emotions and self-awareness while collaborating on goals.
What is her background and experience level?
She holds an LMFT and has three years of professional clinical experience supporting people through a range of emotional and life challenges.
Where is Brooke licensed and based?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California under the credential CA LMFT 138643 and sees clients in that state.
Does she work with clients in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Brooke offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different preferences and schedules.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies based on location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How does someone begin working with Brooke?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyGriefSelf esteemCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseIntimacy-related issuesSleeping disordersParenting issuesCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoachingADHD

Additional focus areas

InfidelityJealousySelf-harmYoung adult issues

Experience

3+ years

Licensed

California

Languages

English