About Watisha
Watisha Sims is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 21 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep difficulties. She also supports those facing trauma, addiction concerns, low motivation, and self-esteem struggles.
In sessions she strives to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about things that feel heavy or confusing. Conversations are practical and direct. She listens, reflects, and helps clients set small, manageable steps toward change.
Background and approach
Watisha draws from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors. She also uses client-centered and mindfulness techniques to build awareness and emotional strength. Her work includes support for mood disorders, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and concerns like obsessions, phobias, and paranoia.
She pays attention to multicultural factors and the impact of life transitions on well-being. Therapy with her often focuses on skills you can use between sessions - sleep routines, coping plans, and realistic goal-setting. She encourages people to move at a pace that feels doable and to celebrate small gains along the way.
Online approaches that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and stress by teaching ways to move toward a meaningful life even when worry is present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and mood regulation by giving clear tools to change thinking and behavior. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathic listening and collaboration. This approach helps people feel heard and choose direction at their own pace, which supports motivation and self-esteem growth.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and symptoms and together decide which methods to try first. Sessions can combine techniques and shift over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, homework updates, or ongoing encouragement between longer appointments. These options help fit therapy into school, work, or caregiving schedules while keeping focus on practical skill-building.
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What this therapist 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
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