About Brian
Brian Timms, LCSW, focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by fear, anxiety, or big life changes. He aims to make each session straightforward and practical. Parents reading on a phone will find short, clear talk about steps to feel better.
He keeps language simple and centers on what a person needs now. Brian uses a gentle, collaborative style that invites people to describe their worries. He listens for patterns that keep problems going and helps identify small changes to try between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions include practical tools to manage panic, sleeping troubles, or anxious thoughts. Over 11 years as a licensed clinical social worker, he has worked with people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, and identity questions. That experience shapes how he blends different approaches to fit each person.
He uses techniques from cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, and narrative work to address phobias and related concerns. Brian pays attention to life context like work stress, parenting demands, or health issues when suggesting coping strategies. He helps people build skills for managing anger, improving self-esteem, and navigating transitions.
Progress is usually a mix of conversation, skill practice, and reviewing what works. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, so people can choose what fits their routine. Brian works in Oklahoma and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflecting concerns and helping clarify goals so sessions feel relevant and respectful.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems like phobias and anxiety going. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to test unhelpful beliefs and build new skills that reduce fear and avoidance.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity to anxious thoughts and bodily sensations. Practicing short exercises can help people feel steadier when panic or worry arises.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through options and try methods that fit the client's goals, needs, and comfort level. This collaborative process means the plan can shift as progress occurs.
Online sessions offer real flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera time is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice new skills in everyday moments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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