About Bridgett
Bridgett Sims is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma with 21 years of experience. She offers a calm, down-to-earth style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges. Bridgett works with practical, goal-focused strategies and encourages collaboration so each person’s needs shape the work.
Her background includes outpatient community mental health, inpatient teen care, home-based services for children, residential substance use treatment, vocational rehabilitation, and integrated care that addresses both physical and mental health.
How Bridgett works
That variety means she has helped people in many different life situations. Bridgett draws on approaches that teach skills and build motivation for change. In sessions, she uses cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Attachment-based ideas help address relationship patterns and early wounds that show up in adult life. Bridgett describes her manner as relaxed and respectful.
She works with each person to set clear goals and practical steps. Sessions focus on what is useful right now and on building tools that carry into everyday life. Many people seek her help for sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and coping with life transitions.
She also supports those facing adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and body image concerns.
Bridgett lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Bridgett works with
The areas below are the ones Bridgett selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Bridgett commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that get in the way and practicing concrete changes to feel and function better; it is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and negative thinking patterns. DBT teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills through structured exercises and skills practice; it can help with strong emotions, anger, and self-management. Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Bridgett will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then tailor techniques to those needs. Together they figure out which strategies to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter check-ins, notes between sessions, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other daily demands while still practicing the skills learned in sessions.Start online instead of waiting
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