About Betty
Betty Acierno is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and addiction concerns. She brings a calm, down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on building a trusting relationship with each person. Her approach aims to help people feel more in control and make choices that match their values.
She trained at Florida Atlantic University, earning a master's degree, a bachelor's degree, and an aging certificate.
Background and approach
Betty has worked in both medical and mental health settings for more than a decade, including roles at a local hospice where she supported people facing grief, loss, and serious illness. Betty draws on several practical approaches in sessions. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She applies Solution-Focused methods to set small, achievable goals and track progress. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe difficult stories about themselves, and Mindfulness Therapy offers simple practices to lower day-to-day stress. Across methods she keeps the work collaborative and tailored to what a person needs right now.
Many people seek her help with relationship struggles, caregiver stress, codependency, self-esteem, and life changes. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, aging concerns, body image, and the emotional aftermath of trauma. Betty aims to guide people toward clearer choices and more manageable daily routines.
Approaches and Online Options for Managing Anxiety
Betty often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking that feed anxiety and stress, then practice small behavior changes to feel more steady. She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach short breathing and attention exercises that reduce reactivity in daily life.Narrative and Solution-Focused elements appear in her online work too. Narrative techniques help people retell difficult experiences in less harmful ways. Solution-Focused methods keep sessions practical by identifying concrete next steps and tracking what helps between sessions.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to see which methods match their goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The emphasis is on what feels useful right now rather than a fixed program.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible. Video is good for a fuller conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can fit brief check-ins or notes between meetings. These options let people fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or times when a quick check-in is most helpful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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