About Beth
Beth VanKeuren Maldonado is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience in Connecticut. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or relationship struggles. Her approach is calm and straightforward, aimed at helping people manage day-to-day life and move toward clearer goals.
She focuses on practical skills as well as emotional healing. Sessions often include talking through immediate concerns, identifying unhelpful patterns, and practicing new ways to cope.
Background and approach
Beth uses a mix of approaches so she can match methods to what each person needs. Beth has worked with people facing trauma, grief, addiction, and chronic health problems. She also supports those dealing with career strain, caregiver stress, and the complicated feelings that come with life transitions.
She pays attention to issues like sleep problems, anger, and low self-esteem that get in the way of functioning. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Beth aims to build trust quickly so people can try small changes that make daily life easier.
She listens for personal values and goals, then helps plan steps that fit real life. In sessions clients can expect clear feedback and simple practices to use between meetings. Beth draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness alongside client-centered and acceptance-based ideas.
The goal is to reduce distress and increase the ability to handle stressors over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take action in that direction even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where clarity of values helps guide choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Mindfulness-based approaches teach simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation, which can help with stress, anger, and trauma reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Then she tailors techniques from these approaches so they fit the client’s daily life and needs in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill demonstrations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text work well for brief check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, caregiving, or health challenges.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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