About Brian
Brian Timms is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. He provides straightforward support for mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder. He also assists people facing relationship challenges, parenting strain, grief, and issues related to sexual identity and intimacy.
Brian uses plain language in sessions and emphasizes collaboration. He listens for each person’s priorities and helps them build practical coping skills.
How Brian works
Sessions commonly address sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career worries, and the day-to-day effects of trauma and abuse. Over eleven years of practice, Brian has worked with a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, compassion fatigue, and caregiver stress. He also offers support around adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment, blended family changes, and chronic illness.
His background includes attention to complex situations like co-morbidity and body image struggles. Therapy draws on several approaches to match a person’s needs. Brian often uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person.
He integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness practices for moment-to-moment coping, motivational interviewing to support change, and narrative work to reframe difficult stories. Brian practices in Oklahoma as an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. He holds eleven years of experience and offers sessions in English.
The aim is practical progress you can use between meetings.
Brian lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Brian works with
The areas below are the ones Brian selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- 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
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s priorities and builds the session around what matters most. It emphasizes listening and reflecting so people feel understood and can make their own choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and many day-to-day problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve moment-to-moment coping, which can help with stress, anger, and trauma symptoms.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will ask about your goals, try different strategies, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits your needs and preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, coaching moments, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent despite busy schedules or travel.
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