Brooke Osborn's research and professional interests have focused on crisis and trauma counseling, and the impact of trauma on the brain and learning. She is the co-author of Counseling through the Storm: A Guide to Treating Crisis and Trauma. Currently, she is completing the manuscript for her upcoming book on developmental trauma and analyzing data from a research study on trauma-informed care in the church. For her dissertation, she developed and validated an instrument to evaluate the competence of Christian counseling students that was published in the Journal of Psychology and Christianity, "Evaluating Counseling Student Competence: The Christian Counseling Supervision Instrument (CCSI)." She is a licensed professional counselor/supervisor and a licensed marriage and family therapist with experience in working with children, adolescents, and adults who have experienced trauma.
She and her husband, Patton, have one son, Lex.
