Bernadette Holyoke
Compassionate, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Bernadette
Bernadette Holyoke is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical, person-centered therapy. She blends Client-Centered methods with cognitive tools to help people manage mood, trauma, and relationship challenges. Bernadette communicates plainly and builds a calm space where clients can talk through hard topics and try new ways of coping.
She has seven years of experience working with mood and personality concerns, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and substance issues. She often addresses anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and stress by teaching skills that can be used between sessions.
Background and approach
Her work includes support for parenting and family-related stress when it affects individual mental health. Bernadette uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that lead to distress. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small steps toward what matters.
Attachment-Based approaches inform her focus on how early relationships shape current reactions. In sessions she combines listening with concrete strategies such as skill practice, behavior planning, and emotion regulation techniques. She aims to make therapy collaborative so clients know why a particular exercise is chosen.
That practical tone is designed to help people notice progress as they work on specific goals. Based in Oklahoma, Bernadette holds LPC licensure - Oklahoma LPC 10108. She offers sessions in English using video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging, and works via a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and personal work
Bernadette draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients spot unhelpful thinking and shift behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday difficulties because it focuses on changing thoughts and actions in measurable steps.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy which emphasizes values and small committed actions. ACT helps people tolerate uncomfortable feelings while moving toward what matters in life, useful for stress, grief, and long-term change.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Bernadette works collaboratively to choose methods that match each person's goals, preferences, and current challenges. She explains why a technique is suggested and adjusts the plan as progress and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions into busy days, review notes or skills between meetings, and continue care when in-person visits are not practical. The format supports consistent work on parenting stress, trauma recovery, mood regulation, and other concerns while allowing the therapist and client to tailor pace and tools to the situation.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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