Daniel Brooks, LCSW

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Daniel Brooks, LCSW, is an experienced, licensed, clinical psychotherapist with offices in Brooklyn's Park Slope 11217, the Flatiron district of Manhattan 10010, and Palm Desert, Ca. 92210.

I am a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University (college,) Fordham University (graduate) and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (post-graduate.) While I treat discomforts related to anxiety and depression, I hold certificates in couples counseling and LGBTQ+ issues. I was formerly on staff at both the Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in Manhattan.

While post-graduate trained in classical analysis, through my 35 years of practice and continued study in emerging modalities, my work has become a compilation of theories and techniques and it is most akin to a Relational point-of-view. My style is both interactive and motivational. I see psychotherapy as a work relationship between two or more individuals and feel each session should be an intertwined progression toward understanding desired change, to which most humans are capably committed.

Both in person and remote (Zoom) sessions are available.

I believe that the integrative and vocational aspects of individuals influence the way they approach and walk through life and are therefore an intricate part of their overall mental health story.

Additional to my own vocation as an analyst I founded New Hope Celebrates 25 years ago, with a spin off 12 years ago to New Hope Celebrates History. Both organizations are non-profits dedicated to the propagation and preservation of LGBTQ+ life and community in New Hope, Pa. Simultaneously I restored a 170 year old country farmhouse and for 20 years operated it as the Wishing Well Bed and Breakfast and was the editor of the area newspaper, The New Hope Gazette.

These experiences gave me insight into building and maintaining a large non-profit organization as well as maintaining a small retail business. I find that having had these experiences has helped me to intricately understand many of the vocations of my patients in a first-hand way.

A believer of movement and mindfulness as part of daily mental health, I taught fitness classes for 15 years and am still an avid spinner, biker, yoga explorer and active member of two gyms: one in New York City and one in New Hope, Pa. I have a keen sense of wonder, spirituality and appreciation of nature and its influence on ones being. Recently I have a fascination with the desert and a third home in Palm Desert. CA.