About Watisha
Watisha Sims is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 21 years of clinical experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, worry, anxiety, and low motivation. She also helps people facing depression, trauma, addiction, and challenges with self-esteem and confidence.
Her approach is conversational and straightforward. Sessions provide a calm space to talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment. She aims to help clients clarify what matters to them and take small, practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Watisha draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and build new habits. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult emotions while moving toward their values. Mindfulness practices and emotionally focused ideas are woven in to improve emotional awareness and connection to what matters.
Over two decades of work have given her experience with a wide range of concerns. This includes sleep struggles, career stress, bipolar mood management, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with OCD symptoms, phobias, postpartum depression, and cultural or multicultural concerns.
Therapy with her is collaborative. She helps clients set clear goals and tries practical tools in session. Progress is tracked in small steps so people can see what helps and adjust as needed.
Approaches that guide online care
Watisha uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change patterns of thought and behavior that increase anxiety or depression. CBT focuses on practical exercises and homework that can be practiced between sessions to build new habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is also part of her work; ACT helps people accept uncomfortable feelings while committing to actions that reflect their values and life priorities.She combines these approaches with client-centered listening and mindfulness skills to tailor sessions to each person. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process - she will work with the client to identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. The plan evolves as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter connection is needed. Messaging and live chat support shorter check-ins, tracking progress, and quick tools between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy schedules while maintaining continuity of care.
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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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