About Bernadette
Bernadette Holyoke is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Oklahoma. She uses a mix of client-centered and cognitive approaches to help people facing trauma, mood concerns, and relationship struggles. Her style is straightforward and down-to-earth.
She aims to make sessions feel approachable and practical for busy families. With seven years of experience, she has worked with people dealing with anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, and trauma-related challenges. She also supports those affected by addiction, grief, and anger.
Background and approach
Bernadette pays attention to attachment and adoption-related issues, abandonment, and the impact of caregiving stress. In sessions she blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral tools. That means she offers space to talk while teaching skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to help people rebuild trust in important relationships. Bernadette helps clients learn practical ways to manage stress, handle intense emotions, and improve communication. She uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.
She offers coaching-style support when clients want hands-on strategies for daily life. People can expect direct, compassionate guidance that focuses on small, doable steps. Bernadette emphasizes collaboration, working together to set goals and track progress.
She aims to make therapy useful and relevant to each person’s everyday challenges.
How counseling approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and identify what matters most. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing thought patterns that fuel distress and teaches concrete skills for mood and behavior management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current connection and communication, helping people repair trust and feel safer in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and try methods that fit their needs. Therapy is collaborative - together they pick techniques that feel useful and adjust them over time based on progress and preferences.
Online therapy with this clinician uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging help people keep momentum between appointments and fit support into a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain regular contact and practice new skills in real life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English