About Brian
Brian Timms is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and major life changes. He offers an approachable, straightforward style and focuses on practical tools that people can use between sessions. Brian aims to create a respectful space where clients can speak openly and feel heard.
He emphasizes clear goals and step-by-step work. Conversations often include identifying unhelpful thinking, practicing new coping skills, and trying small behavior changes that build confidence.
Background and approach
He also uses storytelling and mindfulness techniques to help people make sense of their life patterns and feel more grounded. Brian has eleven years of experience as a clinician in Oklahoma. He draws on a mix of client-centered listening and structured methods to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
This means therapy can feel relaxed while still focusing on progress that matters to the client. People come for help with relationships, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and identity questions including LGBT topics. He also supports those dealing with trauma histories, chronic illness, sleep problems, anger, and workplace strain.
Brian works with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar-related issues and helps people manage attention and motivation struggles. Sessions may include short coaching-style work when someone needs clear next steps. Brian encourages collaboration so clients help shape the plan.
He explains options plainly and adjusts tools as life changes.
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what they hear, and helps people find their own solutions to emotional and relationship struggles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thinking and practicing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, improve mood, or manage sleep and attention problems.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding exercises. These practices can help reduce stress, calm racing thoughts, and make it easier to tolerate difficult emotions in everyday life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay useful and focused.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when video is not possible, live chat fits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep work moving forward between sessions.
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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