About Bethany
Bethany Maroney-Peterson is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage ADHD, anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship problems. She draws on 16 years of clinical experience to offer steady support during difficult times. Her manner is warm and relaxed, and she aims to make sessions feel direct and useful.
She uses practical, focused techniques rather than long theory talks. Sessions emphasize skill-building, clearer communication, and tackling the most pressing problems first.
Background and approach
Clients leave with steps they can try between meetings to notice progress. Bethany blends approaches to fit each person's needs. She often uses ideas from attachment work to understand relationship patterns, cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking, and solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals.
She also draws on dialectical behavior methods when emotion regulation is a priority. Her background includes work with trauma, grief, and caregiving stress alongside family and relationship concerns. Bethany pays attention to how past losses or abandonment affect present behavior and closeness with others.
She also has experience with first responder issues and the strains that come from high-stress jobs. In sessions, Bethany keeps language plain and practical. She collaborates with each client to pick approaches that match goals and daily life.
People who want clear steps, calmer emotions, or better communication often find her style helpful.
How specific approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversation and targeted questions to notice recurring relationship habits and to practice different ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In remote sessions this can include behavioral experiments, structured worksheets, and short homework tasks between meetings to track change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to goals and daily demands. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and shifting course when needed so treatment fits the individual's life and preferences.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging add flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and role-play practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat or messaging works well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or keeping momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still focusing on concrete skills and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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