About Betsy
Betsy Salomon-Auguste is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor working in Illinois with 22 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress, and she also helps with relationship and family concerns, intimacy issues, self-esteem, grief, and depression. She aims to make sessions feel open and nonjudgmental.
Betsy encourages people to talk about what matters to them and to name the feelings that come up. She emphasizes practical steps alongside understanding what keeps patterns going.
Background and approach
Her approach combines listening with clear, usable strategies to manage worry, tension, and overwhelming moments. She helps people break problems into smaller parts and practice new ways of responding. Conversations may include goal-setting, coping skills, and checking progress between sessions.
Betsy also supports people facing life changes such as career shifts, parenting strain, caregiving stress, or midlife transitions. Additional focuses include issues like abandonment, codependency, communication problems, immigration stress, and forgiveness work. Sessions are offered in English and Betsy accepts international clients.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches that help with worry and relationships
Evidence-based techniques focus on clear steps people can use. One approach emphasizes learning to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety, helping reduce worry and avoidant patterns. Another approach centers on improving communication and emotional understanding in close relationships, which can ease tension and rebuild trust.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals, listen to your preferences, and try methods that fit your needs. Together you can tweak the plan as you learn what helps most and build on what works.
Online therapy with Betsy uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when demonstration or nonverbal cues help. Phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer flexibility for short updates, coaching-style check-ins, or when scheduling a live session is difficult. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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