Simone Blidgen

Simone Blidgen is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage depression, anxiety, stress, and self-esteem concerns. She works with adults who are dealing with life transitions, isolation, and emotional overwhelm. Her tone is compassionate and straightforward, aimed at parents and caregivers seeking clear support options.

Simone draws on practical, evidence-based strategies to help people understand their feelings and respond differently to difficult thoughts. Sessions emphasize clearer communication, stronger coping skills, and small changes that add up over time. She pays attention to how past attachment experiences shape current relationships and daily struggles.

Her background includes a decade of experience in clinical social work in Florida. Simone uses several familiar therapeutic approaches to match each person’s needs rather than sticking to a single method. This lets her blend skills training, values work, and talk therapy in ways that fit practical goals and real life situations.

In the therapy room, Simone aims to make next steps simple and doable. She helps clients prioritize what matters, practice new responses, and track progress between sessions. Many people find this approach helpful when coping with grief, burnout, ADHD-related challenges, or changes in family life.

Simone speaks English and works within Florida practice guidelines. People who want to begin can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on therapist availability.

How Simone's approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people name their values and take action toward them even when hard thoughts or feelings appear. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions where values-driven choices matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses structured exercises to change patterns that maintain problems like anxiety and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, helping people improve how they relate to others and manage attachment-related distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Simone will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, attachment work, or a blend makes the best sense for those goals, and this plan can shift as progress is made.

Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets therapists use worksheets, guided exercises, and homework between sessions to keep momentum. If you’re considering online sessions, ask about the available formats during the matching step so scheduling matches everyday life and goals.