Sima Braude is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified RLT Couples Therapist with over 15 years of clinical experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate life's challenges and create meaningful change. Known for her warm, direct, and collaborative approach, she believes growth happens when people feel both supported and challenged — and she strives to create a space where clients can be honest, accountable, and fully themselves.
Sima primarily works with couples. She uses Relational Life Therapy (RLT), a powerful and action-oriented approach that helps partners move beyond recurring conflict, defensiveness, and disconnection toward deeper understanding, intimacy, and mutual respect. Rather than simply managing symptoms, she helps couples identify the patterns that keep them stuck and develop new ways of relating that create lasting change.
In addition to her couples work, Sima has extensive experience supporting individuals facing anxiety, depression, trauma, life stressors, family conflict, and major transitions.She has extensive experience working with couples and individuals facing major life stressors, including medical illness, caregiving challenges, trauma, and high stress professions such as first responders. Her clinical background includes crisis intervention, case management, clinical supervision, and working within community mental health settings, giving her broad experience in supporting clients with diverse and complex needs.
