About Brian
Brian Timms is a licensed clinical social worker who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and ADHD-related concerns. He creates an open, affirming space where people can speak honestly about what’s hard and start to build workable solutions. He focuses on practical skills as well as understanding how past experiences shape current reactions.
Sessions often include trying new ways to manage overwhelm, improving communication, and setting realistic goals. Brian uses plain language and steady guidance so conversations feel useful from the first visit.
Background and approach
With 11 years of practice, he has worked with people navigating grief, trauma, mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder, and identity questions. He also supports those dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness, and career pressures. His work includes attention to intimacy, self-esteem, and sexual identity concerns.
Brian draws on several collaborative approaches to match each person’s needs rather than following a single script. He listens for strengths and patterns, then helps clients test small changes between sessions. That process aims to reduce distress and increase day-to-day functioning.
People who choose him can expect a calm, straightforward style. He helps set clear steps, practices new skills in session, and refines plans over time. Brian works with English-speaking adults in Oklahoma who want a practical, empathetic approach to getting unstuck.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and tailoring sessions to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what’s said, and helps people identify their values and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and managing ADHD-related symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the client’s preferences, and adjust strategies based on what helps. That collaborative process means you can test approaches and keep what’s working.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone is convenient when screen time is limited, and messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or long commutes while keeping the focus on practical progress and usable skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
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