About Watisha
Watisha Sims is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 21 years of experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, addiction, and struggles with self-esteem. She creates a welcoming atmosphere where clients can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings without being judged.
Sessions are driven by collaboration, so goals are agreed on together and adjusted as needed. Watisha uses approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice thoughts and try small, manageable changes.
How Watisha works
She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients clarify values and act on them even when emotions feel strong. Her work includes addressing sleep problems, career stress, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood management, and ADHD-related challenges. She also helps with communication problems, grief and guilt, obsessive patterns, phobias, postpartum mood changes, and multicultural concerns.
People meet her for both short-term problem solving and longer work on patterns that keep coming up. She helps clients build coping strategies they can use outside of sessions. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that moment feel safe and straightforward.
Watisha lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Watisha works with
The areas below are the ones Watisha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Watisha commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy to help clients notice unhelpful thought patterns and build new habits. CBT focuses on identifying thoughts that feed distress and testing small, doable changes to reduce symptoms. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and anxiety management.She also applies acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify personal values and take meaningful action even when emotions are strong. That approach pairs well with practical skills so work in sessions leads to changes in daily life. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process and she will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and skills practice, phone calls can fit into a short break, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins or written reflections. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain momentum between sessions.
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