Halina M Brooke
Docent and Architect for Professionals Rising to Transform their Lives and The Contexts They Call Home
For more than two decades, Halina Brooke has brought a bold and thoughtful approach to helping people, professions, and communities as they grow in integrity, innovation, meaning, and joy. Rooted in strong ethical foundations and pragmatic clarity, her work supports meaningful transformation from the deeply personal to the cultural and policy level.
When her sleeves aren’t rolled up in active process, she can be found hosting educational and experiential gatherings, advising individuals and organizations on meaningful change, and eagerly offering an ergonomic pen to professionals codifying their legacy.
Selected Areas of Work…
Guiding therapists through ethical and professional crises.
Known for a deeply dialectical approach, Halina is a recognized expert in the human side of Board Complaint Recovery, injured clinician identity, and professional purpose reformation. She supports professionals navigating mistakes and crises of all depths as they emerge stronger in ethics, identity, discernment, and meaning.
Fortifying Sustainable and Meaningful Careers.
Halina has worked with college and graduate students, clinicians, and leaders throughout the lifespan in both personal career path work and didactic learning environments. Her approach blends values-driven exploration, out-of-the-box life design strategies, and iterative support to help gifted, creative, and neurodivergent professionals build meaningful and sustainable work lives.
Advising organizations and communities through growth and change.
Halina has built and led initiatives, coalitions and organizations ranging from intimate groups to communities of nearly ten thousand members. Beyond cultivating connection and bringing unlikely collaborators together, she has helped drive efforts ranging from removing harmful content from a national licensure exam to advancing legislative initiatives from draft to delivery into law.
Creating educational and experiential gatherings.
Halina has designed, facilitated, and assisted with immersive educational, clinical, and experiential gatherings within and beyond the US and Canada. She especially enjoys creating connective and reflective experiences that deepen meaning, ethical awareness, and relational engagement within communities and professional groups. Bookending these experiences, attendees often experience her signature virtual workshops that further deepen and punctuate ethical, relational, and cultural learning and connection.
Helping thoughtful professionals codify and carry forward their legacy.
Halina works with individuals throughout their lifespan to distill meaning and articulate insights, stories, and bodies of wisdom that resonate within their communities and professions. Individuals often know, deeply, that they have compelling and valuable gifts to share but need a skillful collaborator to help bring them fully into form. Halina deeply enjoys supporting their generative process and witnessing the ripple effects that follow.
I believe embodied ethical practice is less about perfection and more about cultivating lives, relationships, and communities shaped by courage, reflection, repair, and care.
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Ways I Can Help...
If you’ve found this website, you’re likely looking for support and insight: for your project or organization, or for yourself as a clinician, leader, or individual in the world.
I won’t make you sit through a long-winded video, endless platitudes, or a “discovery session” with pressure and a hard pitch for you to sign you on as a client. It just doesn’t align with my values. You deserve to know what I offer and how, right up front, so you can thoughtfully make the decision that’s best for you. Here’s what we’ve got on tap:
- A la Carte Consultation: We will meet on confidential Zoom for 55 or 85 minutes. Message me to schedule.
- Ongoing Consultation: I am available to existing consultees for ongoing support in 15-minute increments, with sessions 30 minutes or longer on video, and the rest via scheduled phone call.
- Speaking and Workshop Design: I am available to create bespoke presentations workshops, and support experiences for organizations of various sizes and needs. We can discuss rates and scope in consultation.
Halina is a scholar of life and can readily speak on many topics. She actively engages knowledge acquisition with curiosity and fluid assimilation. She has a unique ability to interview, understand and reflect meaning, all while remaining open and empathetic. Her compassionate and curious nature, combined with her clinical knowledge and skills, as well as her command of the tenets of ethical behavior uniquely position her to be a leader in her field.
Hope Eden, LCSW
Founder of The Organized Therapist
Halina has a strong command of pedagogy and effective teaching techniques. She is innovative, creative and effective in her work, very well organized, has an excellent eye for detail, and is a good writer and communicator. I have often used her as an example for the others on the Teaching Team. She is able to bring a difficult concept down to the learners’ perspectives and helps them to create their own meaning and understanding.
Barb Reagle, PhD
Lead Faculty: Psychology Program, Capella University
Halina is well-read, curious, and passionate about the profession of counseling. She has a clear vision of advocacy for students – meeting each learner where they are and supporting them well. Her tone is energetic, affirming, and positive. Halina already is making inroads in Arizona through her policy work-- I'm excited at her prospect as a future counselor educator. The sky's the limit for her and I'll endorse any recommendation she seeks in her own career development.
Counselor Education Internship Supervisor
Dr. Heather Zeng, Counselor Education, Capella University
Halina, I just wanted to write you a quick note to say thanks for all your help over the past few months. I’ve really enjoyed the labs, they were a tremendous encouragement to me. I was incredibly nervous about my college journey, I’m the first in my family to attempt it and I’m coming into it with only a GED. The atmosphere you created in the labs made me feel comfortable with asking all the questions that I probably wouldn’t have asked otherwise. I’ve appreciated all of your insight, thanks again for all your help!
M., Psychology Lab Student
Capella University, School of Undergraduate Studies
Halina has the unique ability to see the world through the eyes of the person in front of her. This ability gives her the opportunity to practice radical acceptance, a talent sorely needed in this day and age. Halina presents a calm and open countenance that immediately brings down walls and leads to true and meaningful work toward the betterment of her clients.
Yaffi Lvova, RDN
Founder & Owner, Baby Bloom Nutrition (AZ)
Halina, Your talk was the most important & meaningful I've heard at this conference. I'm a fat, diabetic doctor & I've felt excluded from this movement & from my profession. Your talk was so brave and eloquent and I would love to hear more from you!
M.B., Physician
Attendee at Conference Presentation, 2018
Looking for Therapy?
Halina Brooke is a licensed professional counselor at her private practice, Recourse Counseling, in Phoenix, Arizona. She has limited availability for daytime, weekday appointments both in-person in Northeast Phoenix and virtually throughout Arizona. She offers a blend of collaborative, strength-based, holistic, relational, and somatic approaches to help clients tap into their inner wisdom, move through trauma, strengthen relationships, and create lives they love. You can find out more about her clinical approach and inquire about openings at RecourseCounseling.com.