About Bridget
Bridget Gottlieb uses practical, person-centered therapy to help people navigate hard changes. She is Bridget Gottlieb, a licensed master social worker and licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. Her style is straightforward and focused on small, useful steps that fit into everyday life.
She blends several approaches to match what a person needs. That can mean looking at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings, strengthening relationships and attachment patterns, or using acceptance-based methods to move forward despite difficult emotions.
How Bridget works
Sessions often include skill-building, real-world practice, and time to talk through painful events. Bridget has worked with people facing anxiety, depression, grief, and major life transitions. She also supports those dealing with addictions, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image and eating concerns, and work-related strain.
She offers guidance for parenting challenges, intimacy issues, and questions about identity and LGBT concerns. Her background includes long experience helping clients with trauma, abandonment issues, blended family dynamics, and communication problems. She focuses on concrete strategies to reduce distress and improve daily functioning rather than abstract theory.
Clients can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and progress is tracked. Bridget encourages practical exercises between sessions and adjusts methods as needs change. Her practice is based in Michigan and sessions are offered in English.
Bridget lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Bridget works with
The areas below are the ones Bridget selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How specific approaches translate to online counseling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck by them, and then move toward what matters most. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and adjustment to life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical experiments to change behavior and mood. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape reactions and trust, and it helps people revise interaction patterns that cause pain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That process can begin in the first few sessions and be adjusted as progress is made.
Confirm the exact session formats before booking, since options are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people try skill practice or homework between sessions and bring real-life situations into conversation. Licensed professionals can adapt the approaches above to remote sessions while focusing on practical steps clients can use at home and in daily life.
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