Bridget Bauersfeld
Compassionate support for families and parents
- Credentials
- LCSW, MD, LCSW-C
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois, Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Bridget
Bridget Bauersfeld is a licensed clinical social worker who helps families and parents handle stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, relationship strains, depression, trauma, and abuse. She draws on more than two decades of clinical work to guide people through hard moments. Her style is warm and practical, focused on steady steps that fit day-to-day life.
Bridget uses a mix of relational and psychodynamic ideas alongside practical skills training. She blends cognitive methods and mindfulness techniques when they help.
Background and approach
EMDR and trauma-focused tools are available for people dealing with painful memories. Sessions aim to build resilience and support a person’s natural ability to heal. Bridget emphasizes empathy and a calm therapeutic presence while working toward clear goals.
Parents can expect help with parenting strategies and support for family stresses. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Bucknell University and a Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland in Baltimore. Bridget has worked in residential treatment, school-based programs, hospital outpatient clinics, and community centers.
She currently practices full time at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. Over twenty years of experience include work with children, adolescents, young adults, and their families on trauma, ADHD, mood disorders, and anxiety. Bridget holds the credentials LCSW and LCSW-C and brings training in EMDR, DBT, TF-CBT, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, equine-assisted approaches, and introductory somatic work.
Approaches that inform online work and what they do
Bridget commonly uses Attachment-Based ideas and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online sessions. Attachment-Based work focuses on relationships and patterns formed early in life, helping parents and family members understand how connections shape behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches simple skills to change unhelpful thoughts and build new behaviors useful for anxiety and mood concerns.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques when emotional regulation and coping skills are a priority. DBT offers concrete tools for managing intense feelings and improving patience in stressful family moments. Together these approaches give both understanding and hands-on steps a family or parent can use between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of Bridget’s process. She will collaborate with each person to decide what feels most useful based on needs, goals, and preferences. That decision can shift as therapy progresses and as new concerns come up.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to reach licensed professionals from home or work. The variety of formats also allows short check-ins, skill practice, or full-length sessions depending on what the family needs.
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.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Depression
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Maryland
- Languages
- English
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