About Gregory
Gregory Sims is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado with 12 years of clinical experience. He holds two master’s degrees in clinical counseling and school counseling and combines therapy with life coaching to focus on practical change. He emphasizes building a cooperative relationship and setting clear, achievable goals with each person he meets.
He works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, stress, trauma and grief. He also supports people facing parenting challenges, relationship strain, eating and body image issues, chronic illness and major life transitions like retirement or new medical diagnoses.
Background and approach
He pays attention to attachment, abandonment, adoption and blended family dynamics when they matter to someone’s story. His style is straightforward and action-oriented. Sessions blend talk with concrete steps - coping skills, behavior changes, and planning.
He uses approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical skills, and emotionally-focused methods to match the problem at hand. Gregory aims to create a team dynamic where client and counselor set priorities together. He focuses on getting measurable results and on helping people keep gains over time.
Progress is tracked and adjusted based on what actually helps someone live better. People who prefer a practical, goal-driven process often find his mix of therapy and coaching useful. He offers sessions in multiple formats and works with English-speaking clients in Colorado and internationally.
Approaches that guide online work and practical change
Attachment-based work focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. It helps people understand patterns that affect trust, closeness, and communication, and it can be useful when relationship conflict or attachment wounds show up in daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and then teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and behavior change because it emphasizes clear steps and measurable results.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time so work stays relevant and focused on what the client wants to achieve.
Online formats make regular work easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or better when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging allow brief updates, homework prompts, or coaching-style support between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can continue when schedules or distances change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English