About Braden
Braden Cary is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma with 11 years of clinical experience. He has worked in schools, universities, hospitals, and outpatient clinics. He meets people where they are and helps with common life struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD.
He offers a warm and supportive style in sessions. Braden emphasizes a straightforward, sociable relationship with clients and believes a strong therapeutic connection is central to progress.
Background and approach
He uses humor, respect, and sensitivity while helping people talk through hard things. Clinically, Braden draws from acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, existential ideas, the Gottman Method, and mindfulness practices. He mixes practical skills with values-based goals to help people reduce suffering and build more meaningful routines.
Sessions focus on small, manageable changes that fit everyday life. Braden has experience across many concerns such as trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, bipolar disorder, and caregiver stress. He also works with issues tied to aging, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image, and cancer-related concerns.
He aims to help people regain a sense of control and confidence. People who prefer a friendly, down-to-earth counselor tend to fit well with his approach. He offers multiple online formats and can work with international clients in English.
Braden supports clients through practical steps and ongoing conversation to help them reach their personal goals.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions in that direction. It helps when worry, low mood, or ADHD patterns get in the way of daily goals. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without making things worse. Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and simple practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Braden collaborates with clients to choose which methods to try first based on their goals, strengths, and day-to-day routines. He will adjust plans over time and combine techniques so they fit how a person actually lives.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is useful for longer sessions and practice work, phone calls are helpful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or skill reminders. These options give flexibility for scheduling, allow connection across distances, and make it simpler to keep continuity when life gets busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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