Brooke Randolph

I believe, as Dr. Wayne Duehn has said, that “parents are the true healers of children.” Parents create the environment for their children and have a much greater impact than any therapist ever could. To be the best parent that you can be, you may need to work through the stress of parenting or process your own hurts and fears.

Counseling for adoptive parents may be centered on child and family issues or may be centered on parental issues. I love working with adoptive parents, encouraging them through the difficult parts of parents, equipping them with resources, information, and training, and empowering them to become the “primary therapist” for their children. Adoptive parents often appreciate that my experience has allowed me to travel to their child’s country of origin and/or orphanage.

Adoption is such a life-altering event and experience that it can impact so many different life areas. The impact continues throughout life with repeated echos and adoption cannot be understood as a one-time event. At times, it can take an experienced adoption therapist to help connect other areas of life where you may be stuck or frustrated back to adoption. While not all concerns relate back to adoption, it is important to work with someone who understands the impact that adoption can have.

As an International Brainspotting trainer, the foundational principles of Brainspotting (uncertainty, anti-oppression, relationship, and flexibility) are a part of all of my work. Brainspotting can be used as an add-on to your current therapy or as your sole therapy. During the Brainspotting process, you can talk as much or as little as you want to; you do not have to share your trauma with the therapist for it to be beneficial to you.

I now offer a nine-week online psychoeducational program that serves both as a self-study program for those couples who wish to work on their relationship at home, working at their own pace, as well as an introduction to couples counseling, teaching the skills and tools needed to make couples counseling really beneficial and successful. I particularly enjoy working with couples from different cultural backgrounds. Inter-cultural relationships offer unique challenges to couples.

I have completed a year long IFS learning cell. I often help my clients identify parts. I believe that all parts have good intentions for the client, so it is easy for me to be curious about even the parts clients have a hard time accepting in themselves.