About Bethany
Bethany Livingston is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor based in Florida. She brings 11 years of experience helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and a variety of relationship and self-image concerns. Bethany aims to create straightforward, practical sessions so clients can make real changes in daily life.
Her work focuses on listening first and tailoring the plan to each person. She blends client-centered conversation with tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches.
Background and approach
That mix helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try different behaviors, and build steady routines. Bethany has a background that includes graduate study in forensic psychology and additional coursework in clinical mental health counseling. She draws on that training to work with people facing eating concerns, obsessive thoughts and behaviors, and process-related compulsions like gambling or problematic pornography use.
She also supports those coping with career stress, anger, communication problems, and struggles with guilt, shame, or forgiveness. Bethany offers straightforward guidance around body image, sexuality, gender dysphoria, and codependency issues when those topics come up in therapy. Sessions combine practical skill-building with reflective conversation.
Clients can expect tools for managing mood and anxiety, strategies to address day-to-day challenges, and mindfulness techniques to reduce reactivity. The goal is steady progress people can use outside sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Bethany uses client-centered therapy to build a respectful, collaborative relationship where the client's goals guide each session. This approach focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel understood before moving to specific strategies.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT provides concrete tools to shift thinking patterns and practice different behaviors for anxiety, mood issues, and compulsive habits.
Mindfulness therapy is part of her work too, teaching simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase awareness of moment-to-moment experience. These skills can help with stress, emotional ups and downs, and managing urges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Bethany will help clients decide which methods fit their needs and goals, and she will adjust the plan as progress is made. Sessions are paced to match what each person prefers and how they respond to the techniques.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper coaching, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can serve for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family schedules while still working toward meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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