About Braden
Braden Cary is a licensed professional counselor with 11 years of clinical experience in Oklahoma. He has provided care in schools, universities, hospitals, and outpatient clinics. He meets people at their current place in life and helps with common struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma.
He aims for a supportive and compassionate counseling relationship. Braden emphasizes honesty and practicality over maintaining a façade of perfection. He uses warmth, respect, and a touch of humor to make conversations easier.
Background and approach
Clinically he draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness practices to help people notice what matters and take steps toward it. He also uses elements of the Gottman Method for relationship concerns and existential ideas when clients want to examine meaning and values. Sessions are focused on concrete skills and real-life changes.
That can include building emotional skills, managing stress and sleep, coping with addictions, and addressing eating or body image worries. He also offers support for parenting strain, caregiver stress, aging concerns, and career-related pressures. Braden works with a broad range of issues including ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, intimacy-related struggles, and compassion fatigue.
He accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. He asks new people to complete a brief questionnaire to match goals and schedule sessions that fit their life.
How Braden’s Approaches Work Online
Braden commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside mindfulness practices. ACT helps people clarify their values and take action toward what matters, even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. DBT teaches practical skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication, which helps with intense emotions and relationship stress. Mindfulness work trains attention and calm, which supports anxiety, sleep, and coping with cravings or intrusive thoughts.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Braden collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. He adapts tools from ACT, DBT, and mindfulness to match the client's situation rather than following a rigid plan.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework support, and steady contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around daily life and changing schedules.
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What this counselor 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