About Simone
Simone Blidgen is a Florida licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. She speaks plainly and aims to make conversations feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed. Her style is steady and compassionate, focused on practical steps rather than jargon.
Simone uses a mix of approaches to help clients notice what matters, build better day-to-day habits, and respond to difficult emotions in healthier ways.
Background and approach
Sessions often include identifying patterns that get in the way, practicing small behavior changes, and learning skills for coping with intense feelings. She emphasizes self-understanding and clearer communication as tools for change. Her work pays attention to how early relationships shape present reactions, and she helps people untangle patterns rooted in attachment and abandonment.
Simone also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thoughts and DBT strategies for emotion regulation when needed. The focus is practical: what shifts will make daily life easier. Across ten years of practice Simone has supported people facing grief, relationship struggles, career transitions, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses concerns like body image, codependency, and trauma or abuse histories. Clients can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and progress is reviewed regularly. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Simone works with adults looking for down-to-earth support to manage symptoms and move toward clearer priorities and routines.
How Simone’s methods translate to online care
Simone often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters and take small committed steps toward those values. ACT can be useful when feeling stuck by worry, low mood, or uncertainty about next steps.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current reactions and patterns. That work focuses on recognizing those patterns and practicing new ways of relating to oneself and others.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Simone discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as needed. Together they decide whether skills training, values-based work, or attachment-focused exploration best fits the immediate goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, processing between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it possible to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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