About Watisha
Watisha Sims is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and problems with sleep and motivation. She also supports those coping with trauma, addiction concerns, bipolar mood shifts, and ADHD.
Watisha aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable for people who are nervous or unsure. Watisha creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. She listens for patterns that keep problems going and helps people practice new ways of responding. She draws from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors.
Mindfulness techniques are used to ease intense emotions and improve sleep. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take small actions toward them. Watisha also uses client-centered and emotionally-focused approaches to strengthen emotional awareness.
That can help with guilt, shame, grief, and relationship stress. She adapts tools to each person’s pace and priorities rather than following a fixed script. Her practice addresses related concerns such as communication problems, loneliness, obsessive behaviors, phobias, postpartum depression, and seasonal mood shifts.
Sessions are offered in English and are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The goal is steady, realistic progress that fits each person’s life.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Watisha commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then take small actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thinking patterns and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and improve sleep.The therapist treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. If something isn’t working, she adjusts the plan and adds tools from other approaches like mindfulness or emotionally-focused work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for a full session when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief skills practice, or steady support between longer sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English