About Beth
Beth Wanke is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, parenting, family concerns, and self-esteem. She brings seven years of direct mental health experience and practical skills to sessions. Beth writes simply and listens closely so people feel understood.
She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life. Her style is warm, collaborative, and nonjudgmental. She helps people name what’s causing strain, find small changes that matter, and build coping skills that fit their daily routines.
Background and approach
Sessions often include concrete strategies to manage worry, reduce risky behavior, and improve communication at home. Beth uses approaches that focus on strengths and problem solving. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice thoughts that fuel anxiety and try different thinking and behavior patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. She has worked in a range of settings, including outpatient mental health, substance use treatment, correctional environments, in-home therapy, and child welfare services. That background gives her familiarity with parenting stress, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and the effects of trauma on behavior.
Beth also has experience teaching and mentoring future helping professionals. She incorporates motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies to help people find motivation and set achievable goals. Her goal is to help clients recognize their resilience and take realistic steps toward change.
Approaches That Guide Online Work
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and values, with the therapist listening closely and following the client's lead to set goals and pace. This approach helps people feel heard and supports progress that fits their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and change patterns that lead to distress. It is useful for worry, panic, and habits that keep problems in place.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they try methods and adjust as needed so the work feels practical and relevant to daily life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel and support more interactive sessions. Phone sessions or live chat can fit into a busy schedule and are helpful when a shorter check-in is needed. Text-based messaging lets someone share updates between sessions and keep momentum on steps and practice. These options make it easier to match therapy to everyday routines and changing needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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