About Bethany
Bethany Kobus is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings five years of clinical counseling experience and a decade of prior social work background to her practice. Bethany focuses on making therapy straightforward and practical for people dealing with worry, stress, and life changes.
She creates a calm, accepting space where clients can talk through what feels overwhelming. Sessions emphasize clear skills for managing anxiety, mood changes, and strong emotions like shame or guilt.
Background and approach
Bethany uses straightforward exercises to build self-compassion and better daily routines. Her background includes work in outpatient settings with children, adolescents, and adults. Bethany holds a bachelor of social work from SUNY Plattsburgh and a master’s degree from Medaille College.
That mix of social work and counseling shapes her practical, person-focused style. Therapy often includes talking, skill practice, and chance to try new ways of coping between sessions. She draws from approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas to improve communication and relationships.
Bethany also uses acceptance and commitment techniques and tools from dialectical behavior therapy to help manage intense feelings. People who want clear, collaborative guidance tend to do well with her. She works with concerns like anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, grief, parenting stress, and relationship issues.
Bethany aims to help each person find manageable steps forward and build on their strengths.
Approaches that guide online work and practical tools
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions aligned with their values. It can help when anxiety or worry gets in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on patterns of thought and behavior that maintain distress and teaches concrete techniques to shift them, which is useful for anxiety, mood changes, and problem-solving. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and supports building healthier ways to connect and communicate.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean combining techniques from different approaches and adjusting the focus as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone can be a simpler check-in with lower bandwidth, and messaging or live chat supports brief check-ins, skill practice, and between-session support. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules and different routines while keeping therapy focused and practical.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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)
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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