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Sima Braude

Therapist
11 years of experience
  • Virtual
  • Depression, Cultural & ethnic issues, Maternal mental health, Relationship issues
  • Individual therapy

Great to meet you!

Sima Braude is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of clinical experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate life’s challenges and create meaningful change. She brings a warm, direct, and collaborative approach to therapy. 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.

My approach to therapy

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.

What you can expect from me

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.

About me

  • I identify as
    Caucasian, Woman
  • My style is
    Affirming, Warm, Energetic

Qualification and insurance

  • Years of experience
    11 years of experience
  • Training
    MSW (Master of Social Work) at California State University, Northridge
  • License type
    LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) (California)
  • Licensed in
  • Insurance accepted
    Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California, Carelon Behavioral Health, Cigna

Cost

Care details

  • Top specialties
    Depression, Cultural & ethnic issues, Maternal mental health, Relationship issues
  • More specialties
    Stress management
  • Therapy methods
    Behavioral, Relational
  • Care types
    Individual therapy
  • Ages served
    Adults
  • Languages
    English, Armenian, Russian