About Bethany
Bethany Virgilio is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She keeps conversations straightforward and nonjudgmental so people can leave sessions with practical next steps. Her approach is calm and steady, aimed at making goals feel doable rather than overwhelming.
She uses brief, concrete strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy to address anxious thinking and panic symptoms. Mindfulness tools are woven into sessions to help people notice reactions and choose different responses.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are often used to clarify values and move toward meaningful action. Bethany has worked across a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, and addiction. She also helps with caregiver stress, communication problems, blended family challenges, and midlife questions.
These topics are approached with attention to each person’s pace and priorities. In sessions she favors a client-centered stance that centers the person’s experience and choices. Progress is tracked through small, achievable steps and regular check-ins.
Therapy combines skills practice with discussion so people can try strategies between sessions and report back what works. Bethany holds a Rhode Island LICSW, and she offers sessions in English. People who want to begin can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule session times that fit their lives.
Approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps toward those values even when hard feelings are present. ACT can help with anxiety, life transitions, and finding direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches specific skills to change them, which is useful for anxiety, panic, and depressive symptoms. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to try methods that fit a person’s goals and preferences. Sessions often begin with small experiments and skills to see what feels useful, then adapt based on feedback and progress.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy days. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill demonstrations and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes or practice tools between meetings and work through immediate questions without scheduling a full session.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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