About Bethany
Bethany Bertsch is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience based in Minnesota. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and mood-related challenges. Bethany listens closely and helps clients build on their strengths to manage hard moments and move toward clearer goals.
She starts by getting to know each person's story and priorities. Sessions are straightforward and goal-focused. Bethany uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with panic, mood swings, and relationship strain, and she tailors her approach to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses self-esteem, attachment issues, body image, and communication problems. Bethany supports people coping with cancer, hospice and end-of-life concerns, caregiving stress, and isolation. She offers practical strategies for managing impulsivity, guilt and shame, and life purpose questions.
Bethany has helped people with complex mood disorders, including bipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. She also provides care for eating and food-related issues and panic disorder and panic attacks. Her long experience includes varied settings and a focus on steady, compassionate guidance.
To begin, she asks about current struggles and what a better life would look like. From there she and the client map out small steps to practice between sessions. Bethany aims for clear communication, realistic goals, and steady progress.
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Bethany uses several evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach helps people learn to notice and shift unhelpful thought patterns, which can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms and make daily stressors easier to handle. Another approach centers on building healthier relationships and communication skills to ease conflict and loneliness.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Bethany partners with each person to review goals, try methods, and adjust what isn’t helping. That collaborative process makes it easier to find techniques that fit a person’s life and preferences.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people see nonverbal cues and work more like an in-person visit. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and flexible scheduling. These formats give practical ways to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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