About Bethany
Bethany Sparkman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress and anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, and depression. Bethany approaches care with a straightforward, supportive style and helps clients build on their strengths.
She sees the person as the expert in their own life and treats therapy as a partnership. Sessions center on practical skills and clear goals.
Background and approach
Bethany encourages small, manageable steps toward change so progress feels real and sustainable. Her approach draws on several well-known methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based strategies. She also uses client-centered listening and can incorporate tools from dialectical behavior work and EMDR when appropriate.
These methods are chosen to match what each person needs in the moment. Bethany helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting stress, body image and eating issues, and challenges tied to ADHD, bipolar mood struggles, and career change. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver strain, and blended family dynamics.
In sessions she focuses on problem-solving, emotion regulation, and rebuilding day-to-day routines. The goal is to help people feel more in control, manage symptoms, and move toward a life that fits their values. Bethany aims to give clear tools and steady encouragement throughout that process.
How Bethany’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and to choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where clarifying what matters feels helpful.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. It is practical for anxiety, depression, and coping with daily symptoms by teaching concrete tools to change reactions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be used for trauma-related memories by guiding attention while processing distressing experiences. When appropriate, it can reduce the intensity of trauma reactions over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bethany collaborates with each person to choose or blend methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan so therapy stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets. Phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging make brief skill practice and timely support easier between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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