Brian Timms
Practical support for stress and life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brian
Brian Timms is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. He practices in Oklahoma and offers straightforward, supportive care aimed at practical change. Sessions focus on clear goals and doable steps parents and caregivers can use between meetings.
He uses plain language and a calm presence to make hard conversations easier. Brian listens first, then works with each person to build tools that fit daily life.
Background and approach
That can mean learning new communication habits, ways to manage anger, or strategies for better sleep and focus. Brian combines several evidence-informed methods to match a person’s needs. He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and habits.
He also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create an accepting space and Narrative Therapy to help people reframe difficult stories. With 11 years of experience as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker - Brian brings steady practical experience rather than jargon. He pays attention to identity, stress, and how life events affect relationships and parenting roles.
Meetings move at a pace set by the client and focus on useful next steps. Sessions are offered in English and include options like video calls, phone visits, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the site.
Costs vary with location and are charged via a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How Brian’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and respect. Brian creates a nonjudgmental space where clients set goals and pace, which helps when discussing parenting stress, identity concerns, or relationship patterns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors. Online sessions can include homework, simple skill practice, and check-ins to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or manage anger.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brian talks with each person about goals and tries methods that fit their life. He makes adjustments over time so therapy stays useful and relevant to day-to-day challenges.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, phone sessions can be used on the go, and live chat or text messaging support shorter check-ins or between-session work. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family routines and ongoing caregiving demands.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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