Bernadette Holyoke , LPC

Bernadette Holyoke is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oklahoma who brings more than six years of clinical experience to her work with individuals facing personality, trauma, and mood disorders. She centers her practice on approaches that prioritize the person's perspective and practical coping skills, using client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral interventions.

She works with clients across the lifespan, supporting people diagnosed with ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), self-harm behaviors, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Bipolar I, borderline personality disorder, and other personality and mood conditions related to trauma. Her practice also addresses relationship and communication difficulties to help families and individuals navigate complex interactions and life transitions.

Bernadette is passionate about advocating for clients' mental health needs and creating a supportive, at-times engaging environment for therapeutic work. She emphasizes collaboration, individual strengths, and practical strategies to help clients manage symptoms, improve relationships, and build resilience.

Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Care

Bernadette commonly integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in her work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening deeply to a person's experience and building a collaborative, nonjudgmental relationship that helps clients explore values and goals; it is useful for improving self-understanding, relationships, and motivation for change. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) emphasizes identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; it is effective for anxiety, depression, mood regulation, and many day-to-day challenges.

She also draws on skills from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) when clients need tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. DBT offers practical techniques that can be taught and practiced in sessions and integrated into daily life to help manage intense emotions and reduce impulsive behaviors.

Finding the best approach is part of the therapeutic process. Bernadette collaborates with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and she adjusts methods over time to fit what helps most. Online therapy offers flexibility - sessions can occur by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit support into busy schedules and to maintain continuity of care when in-person visits are not possible.