About Betsy
Betsy Clark is a licensed social worker with 40 years of professional experience. She holds LISW-CP, LCSW, and CSW credentials and practices in South Carolina. She works with people facing depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and stress.
Betsy also helps clients struggling with career and parenting challenges. Betsy has long experience supporting people with serious chronic or acute health problems, including those facing cancer, chronic pain, illness, and hospice or end-of-life issues.
Background and approach
She helps people manage life transitions, aging and geriatric concerns, and the practical strain of caregiving. Communication problems, money worries, and questions about life purpose are also within her focus. Her approach is collaborative and respectful.
Conversations are shaped to match each person's needs, values, and pace. She draws on practical therapies that help people notice patterns, try different actions, and build better routines. Betsy uses methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Existential approaches.
In sessions she blends these tools to suit what a person needs that week. The goal is to move from feeling stuck to taking manageable steps forward. Beginning therapy can feel hard, and Betsy acknowledges that first step.
She works to create a calm, sensitive space where people can talk through worries and plan concrete changes. Conversations focus on what matters most to the individual and on practical next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and lift mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and shift emotional responses so they can communicate more clearly and repair strained connections.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Betsy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try methods that fit their situation. This is a collaborative process where the therapist and client adjust the plan as they learn what helps most.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick reflections, check-ins between sessions, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different life circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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