At Stony Brook, Broderick conducted mindfulness meditation, self-compassion, and emotional processing groups, along with seeing individual psychotherapy clients. Broderick has clinical experience working with anxiety, depression, trauma, OCD, eating disorders, race-based stress/trauma, sexual/gender identity development, and relational difficulties. Broderick also routinely provides lectures on culturally competent psychotherapy at national psychology conferences and in other settings. In the therapy room, Broderick is an “integrative” psychotherapist, using multiple empirically based techniques to 1) help clients overcome longstanding psychological difficulties, 2) understand why and how those difficulties developed, 3) safely experience challenging emotions once trust is established, and 4) develop a positive sense of self. As far as specific theories, Broderick integrates Cognitive Behavioral, Mindfulness and Acceptance, Compassion, Relational Psychodynamic, Narrative, Attachment, and Neuroscientific based approaches.

While there may be many moving parts to the way he thinks about psychological health and wellbeing, a large focus is placed on the comfort and safety offered in the therapeutic relationship. Broderick is a strong believer that an intervention’s strength is dependent on a strong client-therapist relationship, and he actively works each session to get to know clients not only for their difficulties, but for their strengths, interests, and overall personhood. He believes that if he can see the positive sides of his clients, they can begin to see the positives, too.

Broderick has an enthusiastic interest in mindfulness and compassion-based meditation, and has had a personal meditation practice for nearly 2 years. He spends much free time reading empirical literature, as well as original spiritual texts, to continue to enhance his own meditation practice and knowledge; this allows him to effectively and thoroughly teach those interested in meditation, beginners and advanced practitioners alike. Broderick’s primary focus when teaching meditation is to help clients become aware of, and ultimately gain some control over, the “thinking” mind. Once the “thinking” mind is seen and understood, through practice, clients can begin to identify how their thoughts might be limiting their behavioral responses to stress.

Beyond clinical work, Broderick collaborates with community members in the West End of Louisville to spark community change, utilizing his understandings of race relations and oppressive systems. He is also an avid reader, loves video games, and as a former basketball player, loves spending time watching and playing.