About Brian
Brian Timms is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety and stress. He creates an affirming space where clients can talk about identity, relationships, and life transitions without judgment. He aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for everyday life.
Brian uses a blend of talking and skill-building to address things like social anxiety, communication struggles, sleep problems, and low self-esteem. Sessions focus on concrete strategies that people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
He also supports people coping with grief, trauma, or major life changes. Over eleven years of practice, Brian has worked with a wide range of concerns, including career strain, compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues. He pays attention to how past experiences shape present behavior and choices.
That background helps him tailor each session to the person in front of him. His style is collaborative. He listens first, then offers tools drawn from several approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness.
Clients can expect clear explanations and step-by-step ideas to test out in daily life. People who prefer different ways of communicating can use video, phone, chat, or messaging to meet with him. Brian practices in Oklahoma and works in English during sessions.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the client's perspective so the person feels heard and respected; it helps with identity questions, self-worth, and relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, examines unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to shift patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce overwhelm and improve sleep and emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, so sessions remain focused and relevant.
Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions suit people with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, shorter coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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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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