About Bette
Bette Blondin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience based in Arizona. She brings a calm, down-to-earth presence and a straightforward style to sessions. She aims to help people who are anxious, grieving, exhausted, or facing major life changes.
Her manner is warm and encouraging, and she emphasizes practical steps people can use between meetings. Bette favors an approach that centers the client and draws on cognitive behavioral ideas when helpful.
Background and approach
She uses mindfulness and emotionally-focused tools alongside hypnotherapy where appropriate. In session she listens first, then works with each person to create simple, doable strategies for coping and change. People come to her for stress, anxiety, sleep and eating struggles, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, and mood conditions like depression and bipolar.
She also supports those dealing with trauma, abuse, caregiver strain, chronic illness, adoption and blended family issues, and grief. Her background spans many kinds of life transitions and family-related problems. Sessions focus on identifying obstacles, building on strengths, and practicing new skills.
Bette aims to make therapy feel manageable rather than overwhelming. She keeps explanations plain and assigns practical tools to try between sessions. She works with English-speaking adults and emphasizes a nonjudgmental, respectful stance.
People can expect a collaborative process where the therapist helps sort through feelings, clarify goals, and plan steps toward feeling better.
How Bette’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It means sessions start with listening and understanding each person’s priorities, then building goals from there. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort out feelings and make choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions influence mood. Sessions use simple exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and practice different behaviors, which can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and mood struggles.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches ways to notice what is happening in the moment without getting swept away. Short practices and breathing work are used to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can be helpful for stress and emotional overwhelm.
Bette treats finding the right mix of approaches as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The aim is to find what helps most for a given concern in a way that feels doable.
Online sessions offer flexibility across several formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep up with practice between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, North Carolina, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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