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Brooke Sprowl
LCSW

Brooke Sprowl, LCSW & Founder

“Our pain doesn’t mean we’re broken. Our pain is beckoning us to reignite our soul’s deepest truths, dreams, ideals, and possibilities.”

- Brooke Sprowl

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About Brooke Sprowl
LCSW

Brooke Sprowl is an industry-leading expert and author in psychology, spirituality, and self-transformation. Her insights have featured in dozens of media outlets such as Huffington Post, Business Insider, Cosmopolitan Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Spectrum One News, Mind Body Green, YourTango, and many more. As the founder and CEO of My LA Therapy, she leads a team of 15 dedicated therapists and wellness professionals. Brooke has been a featured speaker at
prominent universities and venues such as UCLA School of Public Affairs, USC, Loyola Marymount University, the Mark Taper Auditorium, and Highways Performance Gallery, to name a few. With a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Welfare with a Mental Health Specialization from UCLA, a Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from USC, and certifications in peak performance and flow science from the Flow Research Collective, Brooke has helped hundreds of prominent leaders and CEO’s overcome anxiety, relationship difficulties, and trauma and reclaim a sense of purpose, vitality, and spiritual connection. With 15 years of experience in personal development and self-transformation as a therapist and coach, she has
pioneered dozens of original concepts and frameworks to guide people in overcoming mental health challenges and awakening spiritually. Brooke is the host of the podcast, Waking Up with Brooke Sprowl. She is passionate about writing, neuroscience, philosophy, integrity, poetry, spirituality, creativity, effective altruism, personal and collective healing, and curating luxury, transformational retreat experiences for high-achievers seeking spiritual connection.

SPECIALIZATIONS

  • Abuse and Trauma
  • Anxiety
  • BDSM and Kink
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Buddhism and Mindfulness
  • Caregiving and Older Adults
  • Codependency and Relationships
  • Dating Therapy
  • Depression
  • Divorce and Blended Families
  • Domestic Violence
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
  • Grief, Loss, and Bereavement
  • Hypocondria
  • LGBTQ+
  • Men's Issues
  • Multi-Cultural and Diversity Issues
  • Narcissistic Personality Disorder
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Older Adults and Aging Therapy
  • Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
  • Self-Esteem
  • Social Anxiety
  • Spirituality
  • Stress Management
  • Teen Therapy
  • Transgender
  • Young Adult Therapy

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How I Work

My work is primarily experiential and somatic, with a focus on working with the unconscious forces that so often hijack our lives without our consent.

Most of my clients already come in the door with an awareness of their problems, so our focus is to reconcile the discrepancies between our unconscious minds that often call the shots behind the scenes so that we can regain agency of our own lives.

As Jung said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

Trauma is stored in the body and we often don’t realize it we’re carrying it with us until we begin to experience problems and patterns in our lives and behaviors aren’t lining up with who we are.

We work together to reconcile the mind and the body, which are so often cut off from each other, creating confusion, anxiety, and helplessness.

We act out our trauma until we heal it.

Blending practical tools with deep, experiential and somatic work, we integrate what has been split off and empower ourselves to heal.

We learn to come back into contact with the parts of ourselves we’ve left behind, and as we do we become more empowered, awake, and alive.

When we do this work honestly and engage with it fully, it creates shifts in every realm of our lives.

As we gain greater awareness of who we are at our core, we create deep shifts the way we interact with ourselves as well as with others, transforming our relationships along with us.

My primary specializations are anxiety, couples therapy, family therapy, and relationship issues and codependency.

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What Makes Me Different

I’m very active and direct as a therapist, providing actionable feedback in real-time. I am open with my observations and bring forth my honest reactions forth with compassion and care, so you never have to guess what I’m thinking.

I strive to approach our work together with brutal honesty and endless compassion, as I do in my own life.

Because I’ve been through the trenches of my own struggles with depression, anxiety, and relationship issues, my expertise comes not only from years of training, but from a continuous confrontation with my own demons and the ever-unfolding lessons that arise in that process.

One of the things that makes me different from other therapists is that I will help you work with your unconscious anxiety and defenses in real time in the session, rapidly recognizing the blind spots and pointing them out to you in the here and now.

While we will address and heal the past stories, trauma, and self-limiting beliefs, we will focus primarily on how the past interfaces with your present difficulties as well as transformative practices that provide powerful relief and healing to transform both the past and present.

Together we will bring to surface the unconscious baggage that is inadvertently controlling your life and help you integrate it with your conscious mind so that you can regain a sense of empowered agency in your life.

Making the connection between what’s happening in session in the present and what you’re struggling with outside of session, we explore unconscious anxiety and defenses within the session and uncover what’s beneath them–what you’ve been running from and protecting yourself from.

As we unearth these deeply buried aspects of the psyche hidden behind our defenses, our wounds begin to heal and we become empowered to trust ourselves and create the lives we want.

I want to help you become free from the feeling that your love for yourself is contingent upon your success, performance, perfection, or external circumstances.

As such, you will come to know that the real, uncensored, struggling, hurt you is loved exactly as you are as you move toward embodying your highest values and living out your truest and most beautiful and vital self.

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Brooke Sprowl
LCSW's Testimonials

Just wanted to share that yesterday's session with you, and a long, productive dinner table conversation with my wife last...

Just wanted to share that yesterday's session with you, and a long, productive dinner table conversation with my wife last night, started to uncover a huge gap between perception and reality in my understanding of the status I held in our marriage. Our session opened my eyes to the fact that the inequity I've long felt comes from a place of assumed unworthiness. I'm so thankful for this journey we are taking together, with your help, towards deeper, more productive understanding.

Anonymous Client

I’ve recommended Brooke to so many of my friends and colleagues, I’m starting to feel like her personal cheerleader. But...

I’ve recommended Brooke to so many of my friends and colleagues, I’m starting to feel like her personal cheerleader. But it can’t be helped. When I look back on the past year, without a doubt the most difficult year of my life, I can’t believe how far I’ve come.

Anonymous Client

With your help, I've finally started to understand that while my vivid imagination often wants to create terrifying monsters under...

With your help, I've finally started to understand that while my vivid imagination often wants to create terrifying monsters under the bed, in a lot of cases those monsters are nothing more than a heap of decidedly less-terrifying laundry I've avoided for too long that just needs to be aired out and put away. Which is definitely a lot easier than monster slaying. Thank you for shedding light in the dark places I was too afraid to face alone.

Anonymous Client

You are truly an amazing person. I am so grateful for your sincerity and kindness– big-hearted and deep soulfulness. You...

You are truly an amazing person. I am so grateful for your sincerity and kindness– big-hearted and deep soulfulness. You are incredibly intuitive, insightful and wise. You are a gifted listener and a powerful speaker, passionate and genuine.

Anonymous Client

After every session I come away feeling better prepared to start shining light into shadows I've hustled past for a...

After every session I come away feeling better prepared to start shining light into shadows I've hustled past for a long, long time... some rational ones, but a lot more aren't. Shame is such a stealthy master; He's been the monkey on my back for a long time. You totally called it. I'm so grateful for your guidance and skill and although sometimes I may shuffle and others I may leap, after our sessions I always feel like I'm moving forward.

Anonymous Client

Brooke is kind and warm, but not afraid to challenge you. She is caring, authentic and compassionate as well as...

Brooke is kind and warm, but not afraid to challenge you. She is caring, authentic and compassionate as well as intelligent and clinically skilled. Brooke possesses great wisdom and intuition, which she balances with knowledge and skill.

Anonymous Client

I want to thank you again for your continued help and expertise, and more specifically for yesterday's learning opportunity about...

I want to thank you again for your continued help and expertise, and more specifically for yesterday's learning opportunity about how I can communicate more effectively. After your ultimately appreciated prodding you made me feel comfortable with the idea that expressing confusion or even doubt can serve as valuable conversation-assets, and I look forward to moving forward without those those self-inflicted parameters.

Anonymous Client

After many attempts at therapy in the past, for the first time I’m making deep and lasting changes that are...

After many attempts at therapy in the past, for the first time I’m making deep and lasting changes that are touching every aspect of my life. I had no idea how much weight I was carrying around until it had been lifted off of my shoulders. Therapy has helped me untangle so much of confusion and bring peace to where I once felt fear. I feel free and alive for the first time in a long time.

Anonymous Client

In a time of debilitating hopelessness and fear, My LA Therapy provided a beacon of light, a safe place to...

In a time of debilitating hopelessness and fear, My LA Therapy provided a beacon of light, a safe place to land, and a path forward. I’ve finally overcome problems I once thought were impossible to change. I now know that all of the shame and fear I once thought were insurmountable are only obstacles I needed to face to become stronger. I’ve discovered a new sense of peace and purpose. I feel like a new person and I feel capable of of facing anything that comes my way.

Anonymous Client

Brooke has been an incredibly positive influence in my life. I first came to Brooke in the midst of a...

Brooke has been an incredibly positive influence in my life. I first came to Brooke in the midst of a divorce from my high school sweetheart and best friend. With Brooke’s gentle guidance and supervision, I began the most intense period of personal growth in my life.

Anonymous Client

You have dramatically changed my life at least twelve times over!

You have dramatically changed my life at least twelve times over!

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