Hannah Brooks, MA, LMFT
Hannah Brooks is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Clinical Supervisor, and Community Engagement Specialist offering therapy to individuals, couples and families in San Diego, CA and online throughout California. Hannah works with clients who are ready to go deeper, not just talk about their problems, but actually understand them, shift them, and stop repeating patterns that no longer serve them. To schedule, get in touch with Aeriana, our Care Specialist.
There is a difference between talking about your life and actually understanding it.
Many of the people I work with have spent years trying to make sense of their patterns, their relationships, and their emotions, and still feel like something is missing.
Not because they are doing it wrong. But because real depth in therapy requires more than knowledge.
It requires a therapist who has the capacity to sit in complexity, who continues to do their own inner work, and who is willing to meet you beyond surface level understanding.
I am passionate about growing alongside my clients and making sure I am showing up fully, not just offering tools or clinical language, but supporting you in a way that is real, attuned, and meaningful.
Most of the people who find me are not new to therapy. They are insightful, self aware, and often high functioning. They are the ones others rely on. The ones who have learned how to hold it together. And yet internally, something still feels off. They may be dealing with anxiety, panic, trauma, disconnection in relationships, or a constant undercurrent of overwhelm that never fully goes away.
If that is you, you are not the problem. You are carrying more than you have been given the space to fully process.
I have been working in the mental health field for nearly 10 years and as a therapist for over 5 years. I am now a Clinical Supervisor at Whole Wellness Therapy and have spent thousands of hours sitting with people in the most raw, complex, and vulnerable parts of their lives. That experience has made one thing very clear to me. Surface level work does not create lasting change. Insight alone is not enough. Real healing requires depth, honesty, and the willingness to go where most people have not been guided to go.
We are complex beings. Everything we carry has been shaped through our relationships, our family systems, our trauma, and the meaning we have made of our experiences. When those layers go unprocessed, they do not just disappear. They show up in how we attach, how we communicate, how we cope, how we shut down, how we over function, and how we struggle to feel fully at peace in our own lives.
A lot of my clients come in feeling deeply misunderstood. Not just by people in their lives, but sometimes even by past therapists. They have been given tools, labels, coping skills but no one has really slowed down enough to understand what is actually the root cause of their symptoms.
Providing individual and couples therapy to clients in San Diego, CA and online throughout California.
How I work…
My approach is relational, trauma informed, and deeply intentional. I draw from Emotion Focused Therapy, Attachment work, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic and Humanistic approaches, Existential work, and Brainspotting.I do not hide behind modalities. I focus on you. Your patterns. Your nervous system. Your relationships. Your story.
I believe relationships are one of the primary pathways to healing. That is why I am so passionate about couples work, family therapy, sex/intimacy work, and helping every person I work with find deeper community, connection, and belonging.
As a Phase 1 Certified Brainspotting therapist, I incorporate somatic work to access and process what lives beneath the surface. This is especially important for trauma, panic attacks, dissociation, and patterns that feel intense or confusing. We are not just talking about your experiences. We are helping your body actually process what it has been holding. That is where things start to shift in a real way.
Education:
Hannah Brooks, MA, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist at Whole Wellness Therapy.
Master of Counseling Psychology: William Jessup University (2021)
Bachelor of Arts: Psychology, William Jessup University (2017)
Specialties/Expertise:
I specialize in complex trauma, panic disorders, dissociative disorders, mood disorders, and relationship work including couples & family repair, intimacy/sexuality, and dating. I also have experience working with LGBTQ+ couples, blended families, separation/divorce, and co-parenting.
One of the deepest passions in my work is helping people understand the generational patterns they are carrying.
Because the truth is, a lot of what you struggle with did not start with you.
The anxiety, the people pleasing, the codependency, the emotional shutdown, the fear of abandonment, the over functioning, the inability to rest. These patterns are often rooted in systems you were shaped by long before you had the ability to question them.
I help individuals, couples, and families understand those patterns with clarity and compassion so they can stop repeating cycles that were never theirs to carry in the first place.
More About Hannah:
Alongside my role as a Clinical Supervisor, I also serve as a Community Engagement Specialist. I facilitate group therapy at Whole Wellness Therapy, lead groups at a local residential treatment center, and have built much of my work around helping people heal not only individually, but in relationship and in community.
I had the opportunity to help bring Whole Wellness Therapy to San Diego, with a deep commitment to ensuring this community receives the same level of care, intention, and heart that defines our practice.
Being part of building this branch has been an extension of my belief that people deserve access to therapy that feels deeply human, deeply attuned, and genuinely life changing. I remain deeply invested in continuing to grow this space and thoughtfully bringing on therapists who align with that level of care.
I am deeply involved in the San Diego community because I do not believe healing only happens behind closed office doors.
I lead a free community group for women called San Diego Dreamers, which has been featured in SD News, SD Magazine, Locale Magazine, and more. I created this space because I saw how disconnected our world has become and how hard it can be to find healthy relationships, meaningful friendships, and authentic community.
In addition, I lead community psychoeducational workshops and get togethers for therapists, because I care deeply about creating spaces where even the helpers get to connect, learn, and be supported. To learn more about these offerings, feel free to email me at hannah@wholewellnesstherapy.com.
I also work with high level professionals, leaders, entrepreneurs, and other therapists who are used to being the one others turn to. As both a therapist and an entrepreneur, I understand the pressure of being someone who is constantly holding responsibility while still trying to stay connected to yourself and your relationships.
Creativity has always been a huge part of who I am. Before becoming a therapist, I spent years as a performing musician, singer, and songwriter. That experience deeply shaped the way I understand emotion, vulnerability, and the human need to be seen and heard.
In many ways, I gave up a career in music because I realized I could help people in an even deeper way by supporting them in learning how to write their own songs, meaning how to understand themselves, find their voice, and share their story.
That perspective still lives in my work today.
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California Board of Behavioral Sciences License Number: LMFT142530
