About Cicely
Cicely Betts, LCSW, helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, and ADHD-related challenges. She writes plainly and speaks directly, aiming to make therapy feel practical and approachable for busy lives. Her style blends warmth with honesty so clients can move toward clearer goals without feeling judged.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs, drawing on cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, psychodynamic ideas, and acceptance-focused work.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on identifying what the client wants to change and building small, workable steps to get there. Conversations are often straightforward and solution-oriented, with room for deeper insight when it helps. Cicely earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work in 2012 and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, in Texas.
She has eight years of professional experience and has supported people facing trauma, grief, addiction, mood concerns, and parenting or career stresses. Her approach centers on collaboration and practical skills. She helps clients strengthen communication, manage overwhelming feelings, and build routines that fit their lives.
Mindfulness practices and thought-focused techniques are used to reduce reactivity and increase clarity. Outside of clinical work she prioritizes balance, creativity, and family time. She enjoys drawing, writing, and designing organizational tools that make everyday life more manageable.
That perspective often informs therapy, offering clients tangible strategies they can use between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward the life someone wants. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and people who feel stuck because it emphasizes action over getting every thought figured out.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) centers on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. It often includes practical exercises between sessions to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress and to improve daily routines.
Client-Centered Therapy puts the client's experience at the center and relies on listening, empathy, and collaborative goal-setting. It helps people build self-awareness and confidence before moving into skills-based work.
Finding the right fit is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose or blend approaches based on goals, preferences, and how they respond in early sessions. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels doable and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full-session conversations and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows faster check-ins, and messaging supports quick reflections or brief coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and daily life while using approaches like ACT and CBT in practical ways.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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