About Simone
Simone Blidgen is a Florida-based licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who helps people dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, and changes that feel overwhelming. She speaks plain, direct language and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is warm and steady, aimed at helping someone feel more grounded and able to move forward.
Simone uses a mix of evidence-informed methods to support emotional recovery and everyday coping.
Background and approach
She helps people notice unhelpful patterns, test small changes, and build routines that reduce distress. Sessions often include skill practice and straightforward reflection rather than lengthy theory talks. She pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns that make emotions feel stuck.
That means looking at how past experiences shape current reactions and how to form more helpful ways of relating to others. Simone also works with issues like grief, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue using concrete strategies to manage symptoms. Clients with mood swings or bipolar spectrum concerns are offered clear planning and coping tools to help navigate ups and downs.
She can also support people facing career stress, parenting strain, or the frustration of communication and control struggles. Simone has ten years of clinical experience and draws from approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and attachment-based work.
Her goal is to help people feel more in charge of daily life and to build steady habits for long-term emotional balance.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into clear parts and teaches practical techniques to change them. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and helps people understand how early bonds affect current connections and emotional reactions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Simone will listen to your goals and preferences and try methods that fit your situation. Together you can adjust techniques and mix approaches so sessions match what helps you most over time.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you maintain face-to-face contact for in-depth work and skill practice. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a lower-bandwidth option when video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or when a quick support moment is needed. These formats give flexibility to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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