About Betsy
Betsy Weiss is a Louisiana Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with twenty years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps that fit daily life and listens for what matters most to each person. Her approach is calm and straightforward, aimed at easing overwhelm so clients can move forward with more confidence.
She uses a client-centered style that prioritizes each person's goals and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools are offered to spot unhelpful thinking and try small, manageable behavior changes.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are used to steady attention and reduce reactivity in stressful moments. Betsy also draws on Internal Family Systems ideas to help people clarify different parts of themselves and reduce self-criticism. She supports people dealing with parenting strain, self-esteem concerns, depression, and life transitions.
Other focus areas include adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, attachment concerns, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, body image, and relationship communication challenges. Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Conversations are practical and anchored in strategies people can try between sessions.
Betsy works to create a respectful space where clients can speak openly and set realistic goals for change. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client's calendar. The subscription model for sessions can be canceled at any time, and costs vary with location and therapist availability.
How Betsy's Methods Translate to Online Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's goals. In practice this means conversations are shaped around what the client says matters most and the pace feels comfortable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavioral changes. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and low mood because it offers concrete steps to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Betsy will discuss options and decide collaboratively which methods to use based on a client's needs, goals, and preferences. That decision can change over time as progress is made or different issues come up.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and shared materials, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and brief reflections. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and try methods that match how someone prefers to communicate.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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