Brooke Sprowl, LCSW
Experiential, somatic, and direct.
Most of my clients already come in the door aware of their problems. My work is with the unconscious forces that hijack our lives without our consent — so you can regain agency over your own.
“Our pain doesn’t mean we’re broken. Our pain is beckoning us to reignite our soul’s deepest truths, dreams, ideals, and possibilities.”
Twenty years of practice, and a lot of lessons along the way.
Brooke Sprowl is an industry-leading expert and author in psychology, spirituality, and self-transformation. As founder and CEO of My LA Therapy, she leads a team of therapists and wellness professionals, and personally vets and trains every clinician on the roster.
She holds a Master’s in Clinical Social Welfare with a mental health specialization from UCLA, a Bachelor’s in Neuroscience from USC, and certifications in peak performance and flow science from the Flow Research Collective. Over fifteen years as a therapist and coach, she has helped hundreds of leaders and CEOs move through anxiety, relationship difficulties, and trauma to reclaim purpose, vitality, and spiritual connection — pioneering dozens of original concepts and frameworks along the way.
Brooke hosts the podcast Waking Up with Brooke Sprowl, and writes and speaks on neuroscience, philosophy, integrity, poetry, spirituality, creativity, and effective altruism. She also curates transformational retreat experiences for high-achievers seeking spiritual connection.
What I help people with.
We act out our trauma until we heal it.
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 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.
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 in 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.
Nervous System-Based Therapy — the method I built from what finally worked.
We work with the past as it operates now — in your body, your reactions, your relationships — rather than recounting history for its own sake. The goal is capacity, not just understanding: a system that can feel activation without being run by it.
Explore the approach →What I draw on, depending on what you need.
Tell us what’s going on.
We’ll hand-select your match from our small, boutique roster — usually within 24 to 48 hours.
What clients say about working with Brooke.
★★★★★Verified client reviewsYou did more in 45 minutes than my last therapist did in a year!
I am blown away! Brooke has the true gift of great insight and compassion while also getting straight to the heart of your blind spots in a way that has truly changed my life.
Thank you for yesterday’s learning opportunity about how I can communicate more effectively. You made me feel comfortable with the idea that expressing confusion or even doubt can serve as valuable conversation assets.
Brooke goes directly to the source of the issue while keeping a very gentle and kind energy. I felt very seen, understood, and supported.
There are people who are good at their work, and there are people like Brooke: who are born to do it. Brooke knew exactly what tools and questions would work for my particular psychology. No other therapist has been able to do that, or anything close.
Yesterday’s session with you, and a long, productive 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.
Brooke is kind and warm, but not afraid to challenge you. Caring, authentic, and compassionate, as well as wickedly smart.
I have worked with many therapists in the past, but this is the first time I feel that I am making real changes. Brooke’s counseling has helped me become free, even from things I wasn’t aware were affecting me.
I’m so thankful for this journey we are taking together, with your help, towards deeper, more productive understanding.
Brutally honest and endlessly compassionate
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.
In Santa Monica, or wherever you are.
I take on a small number of clients by application.
We have a wonderful team of highly skilled therapists who I personally vet and train. If you’d specifically like to work with me, the application tells me what you’re facing so I can say honestly whether I’m the right fit, or point you to who is.
Speaking, press, podcasting, and transformational retreats.
You’ve understood it long enough.
Let’s change it.
A free 30-minute consult, and a therapist chosen for you by the person who trained them.
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