How do you work with clients with anxiety?
When working with clients with anxiety, I create a supportive and structured environment where they can safely explore their thoughts, emotions, and triggers. I use evidence-based approaches, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness techniques, and relaxation strategies, to help clients identify unhelpful thought patterns and develop practical coping skills. The goal is to reduce distress, improve emotional regulation, and empower clients to manage anxiety effectively in their daily lives while building confidence and resilience.
Bridget C. Everett, MA, LPC, CGT
Licensed Professional Counselor | Certified Grief Therapist | EMDR Trained
Bridget is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Certified Grief Therapist (CGT) in Colorado. Her experience includes inpatient, residential, outpatient, intensive outpatient (IOP), and partial hospitalization (PHP) settings, working with children ages eight and older, adolescents, adults, older adults, and families.
Her therapeutic approaches may include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness and somatic-based interventions, trauma-informed care, and neuroscience-informed perspectives. Bridget has also completed EMDR Basic Training.
EMDR and Trauma-Informed Treatment
While Bridget is trained in EMDR and other trauma-informed approaches, requesting EMDR does not mean it will automatically be initiated or that it is the most appropriate treatment approach. Treatment recommendations are based on clinical assessment, including each client’s needs, goals, stability, readiness, and safety. EMDR may require preparation and stabilization and may not be appropriate for every client or at every stage of treatment. Because EMDR providers vary in training and experience, clients are encouraged to ask about a provider’s specific qualifications.
Areas of Support
— Anxiety: Worry, anxious thoughts, overwhelm, and difficulty managing stress.
— ADHD: Attention, organization, follow-through, impulsivity, restlessness, and everyday functioning.
— Behavioral Concerns: Patterns that interfere with functioning at home, school, work, or in daily life.
— Grief and Loss: Bridget’s CGT credential reflects additional specialized education in grief and loss. She supports individuals navigating bereavement, anticipated loss, significant life changes, relationship and family losses, and the loss of a pet or companion animal.
— Adjustment and Life Transitions: Navigating changes involving relationships, family, school, work, living circumstances, and other significant life events.
— Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance: Understanding and managing emotions, navigating difficult experiences, and developing more intentional responses.
Approach to Counseling
Bridget views counseling as a collaborative process and values transparency, ethical practice, and the time and commitment clients bring to their care. Her role is to listen carefully, help clients explore patterns and connections, and offer clinical perspective and therapeutic tools while supporting them in making meaning of their own experiences.
When a client’s needs extend beyond her training or experience, a requested treatment approach is not clinically appropriate, or another level of care may be indicated, Bridget communicates this openly and supports appropriate referrals or transitions in care.
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Psychiatric Services of the Rockies: Therapy
2121 Midpoint Dr., Ste 201,
Fort Collins, CO 80525
