About Bridgett
Bridgett Sims is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with more than two decades of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and trauma. She brings a calm, respectful manner to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can take right away. Her approach is collaborative and solution-minded.
Bridgett has worked in many settings, including outpatient community mental health, inpatient teen care, home-based children’s services, residential substance use treatment, vocational rehabilitation, and integrated physical and mental health care.
Background and approach
That variety gives her a broad view of how life challenges show up in daily routines. She uses clear, evidence-informed methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for managing emotions and changing unhelpful thought patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas also appear in her work when they suit a person’s goals.
Sessions focus on setting realistic goals and practicing tools between meetings. People can expect a laid-back tone paired with straightforward guidance. Bridgett helps clients name what matters to them and build steps toward it.
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while encouraging active effort and small, measurable change. Her practice includes support for parenting stress, sleep problems, intimacy concerns, ADHD, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and career or life transitions. Bridgett speaks English and practices in Oklahoma as an LPC.
How Bridgett’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take committed steps toward those values, even when emotions are difficult. Online sessions can be used to practice small behavior changes and plan value-based actions between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through concrete exercises and homework. It fits well with video or phone sessions where worksheets and skill rehearsal can be reviewed together. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills through structured practice and coaching-style feedback that translates smoothly to online formats.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. Bridgett collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She reviews what’s helping and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow more visual interaction, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief coaching, check-ins, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options help people keep momentum and practice skills between meetings.
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What this counselor 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