About Betty
Betty Burns is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 19 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or relationship struggles. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at practical steps you can use day to day.
Betty works with adults to untangle problems tied to trauma, addiction, mood changes, and life transitions. She supports people dealing with parenting strain, workplace pressure, low self-esteem, and issues around intimacy.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped to fit each person’s needs and goals. Her approach centers on building trust and understanding how past relationships affect current feelings. She uses attachment ideas to look at patterns that repeat in relationships.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of coping. Betty also draws on trauma-focused methods when painful memories get in the way of living fully. She takes time to move at each person’s pace and to choose tools that feel doable.
Therapy aims to reduce distress and increase skills for managing daily life. Clients can expect a respectful, down-to-earth conversation and a clear plan for progress. Betty encourages small, measurable steps toward more satisfying relationships and a stronger sense of purpose.
She practices in Tennessee and offers online options for those who prefer remote sessions.
How Betty's Approaches Work Online
Betty uses attachment-based ideas to notice patterns in how people relate to others. This helps when relationship habits create anxiety or recurring conflict and guides work on feeling more supported with others.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to break down thoughts, feelings, and actions into workable pieces. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Betty will talk with each person about goals and preferences and jointly decide which methods to try. She adjusts pace and techniques as needs change so the work stays useful.
Online therapy makes regular sessions easier to fit into life. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and interactive work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins, homework prompts, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options provide flexibility to keep momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- ADHD
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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