About Braden
Braden Cary is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eleven years of clinical experience. He has worked in schools, universities, hospitals, and outpatient clinics. He meets people where they are and helps them manage stress and anxiety so life feels more livable again.
He offers a supportive, nonjudgmental approach that emphasizes a strong working relationship. Sessions are practical and down to earth. He uses straightforward tools like mindfulness and values-based actions to help people make changes.
Background and approach
Braden draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas to teach skills for managing intense feelings. He also brings existential perspectives to help people find meaning after loss or during big life transitions. In session he works with worries about relationships, grief, depression, bipolar mood concerns, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, and parenting stress.
He also helps with self-esteem, career strain, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and issues coming from family of origin or caregiving roles. Braden respects humor and plain talk as part of therapy. He aims to help clients let go of unhelpful expectations and regain a sense of control.
He is based in Oklahoma and works with people from many walks of life.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter. It helps when anxiety or stress makes it hard to move forward by teaching practical steps based on what you care about. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers specific skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. DBT techniques are useful when strong reactions, anger, or emotional overwhelm get in the way of daily life. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention and breathing habits to reduce rumination and increase calm; it pairs well with ACT and DBT practice.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative effort. The therapist will work together with the client to choose techniques that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. This means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the approach over time so it matches how the client is doing.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging offer flexible ways to keep therapy going. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing processing or quick skill reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work during life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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