About Betty
Betty Peterson is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience. She practices in Texas and offers a calm, straightforward approach for people facing anxiety, stress, addiction, mood struggles, and ADHD-related concerns. She creates a space where people can speak honestly about thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Sessions focus on practical steps and small changes that make daily life easier. The tone is warm and direct, aimed at helping people feel understood and seen.
Background and approach
Betty blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral techniques, and client-centered listening. She uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing tools to help people clarify values, shift unhelpful thinking, and find doable habits. That mix is useful for coping with grief, relationship strain, sleep disruption, and workplace stress.
Her background includes nearly two decades supporting people through major life changes like divorce, career shifts, chronic illness, and caregiving challenges. She also addresses compassion fatigue, codependency, and self-esteem concerns. The emphasis is on problem-solving that fits each person’s life.
Therapy can include short-term goal work or longer-term support depending on needs. Sessions may involve discussing practical strategies, practicing new ways to respond to stress, and building routines that improve sleep, focus, and mood. People leave with concrete steps to try between meetings.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take small steps toward what matters. It is useful for stress, anxiety, grief, and ADHD-related struggles where value-driven action matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and practicing different responses; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and mood regulation. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and understanding, giving people space to make sense of their experience while the therapist follows their pace.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, what has helped before, and daily routines to decide which tools to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on what works and what needs to change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is low, chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins or short coaching-style exchanges. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while still using the therapeutic methods described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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