About Bridgett
Bridgett Sims is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 21 years of experience. She takes a calm, down-to-earth approach that helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or life changes. Many people come to her worried about attention and focus, and she includes ADHD among the concerns she addresses.
Her background spans outpatient community mental health, inpatient teen care, home-based children’s services, residential substance use treatment, and vocational rehabilitation.
Background and approach
More recently she has worked in integrated care settings that combine physical and mental health needs. That variety informs a practical style that aims to meet clients where they are. Bridgett often uses cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies to give people tools they can use right away.
She also draws on client-centered and attachment-based ideas to build trust and a steady working relationship. Sessions focus on clear goals chosen together and steps to reach those goals. Her manner is relaxed and respectful.
She emphasizes collaboration and wants clients to feel heard while learning new ways to cope. Parents reading this will find straightforward language and an emphasis on usable strategies. Bridgett supports people dealing with addictions, trauma, relationship strain, sleep struggles, parenting stress, mood concerns including bipolar, and compassion fatigue.
She aims to help clients feel more capable and to take small, sustainable steps toward change.
Practical therapy approaches that work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to shift patterns that cause distress. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and focus concerns such as ADHD. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness; it can be useful when emotions feel overwhelming or relationships feel unstable.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration shapes the plan and lets techniques be tried and adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into daily life. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and coaching, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging lets people share short updates or reflections between sessions. These options are chosen to improve flexibility and accessibility for varied schedules and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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