About Bridget
Bridget Bauersfeld is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, family challenges, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, depression, and relationship difficulties.
Background and approach
She practices from an integrated psychodynamic and relational foundation, combining empathic, client-centered care with evidence-based techniques to support growth and resilience. Bridget frames therapy as a collaborative process that builds on a person’s strengths while addressing the patterns that maintain distress.
Her approach blends cognitive therapy tools and mindfulness practices with specialized trauma work such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Her background includes training in Trauma-Focused CBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Parent Child Interaction Therapy, equine-assisted methods, and introductory somatic experiencing.
Over two decades Bridget has worked in residential, school-based, hospital, and outpatient settings, and she currently sees clients in Illinois as a full-time outpatient therapist at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge. She aims to foster an empathic therapeutic environment where clients can pursue meaningful change and strengthen their capacity for self-healing.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Bridget draws on several established approaches to tailor treatment to each person’s needs. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relational patterns shape current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating and feeling supported. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thought and behavior patterns by teaching practical skills to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and to manage stress. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that works with the mind’s information-processing system to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and related distress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Bridget works with clients to assess goals, preferences, and presenting concerns, and she adapts methods over time so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single model.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for scheduling and consistency when in-person visits are difficult. These formats make it easier to attend regular sessions, try different therapeutic tools between meetings, and maintain continuity of care while working around daily responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Depression
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Maryland
- Languages
- English