About Bridgette
Dr. Bridgette Montgomery helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical ways to manage symptoms so daily life feels easier.
Dr. Montgomery is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, with three decades of experience in clinical practice. She uses approaches that center the person in the room.
Therapy often starts with listening to what matters most to the client. From there she works with clients to build concrete coping skills and to reduce symptoms that get in the way of functioning.
Background and approach
Her work draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses client-centered methods to make space for each person’s experience. For people with trauma histories, she includes techniques that address painful memories and their effects on current life.
Dr. Montgomery has long experience helping people with anxiety, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, eating and food-related concerns, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports those navigating gender dysphoria and process or sex-related addictions.
Her style combines direct skill teaching with a respectful, nonjudgmental listening stance. Sessions move at a pace chosen by the client. People can expect practical homework when it helps, and conversational work when that fits better.
Her aim is to help clients feel more in control and more able to handle daily stresses.
How her therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting. In online sessions this means the therapist pays close attention to what a person says and helps them clarify their feelings and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through short exercises and practical homework that can be reviewed during virtual meetings. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, aims to reduce the emotional impact of traumatic memories using structured processing techniques that can be adapted for video sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit the client’s needs. Sessions can be adjusted over time if something isn’t helping, so the client and therapist decide together which tools to keep or change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for interactive skill practice and EMDR-style processing. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins and flexible ways to track progress between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same clinical approaches as face-to-face work.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Eating and food-related issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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