About Betty
Betty Gewirtz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of professional experience. She practices in New York and brings long experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, career questions, and life transitions. She approaches work as a collaboration and respects each person as the expert on their own story.
Betty has a background that includes executive and professional coaching alongside clinical practice. She uses that mix to help people with career planning, workplace stress, and balancing professional demands with personal life.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Her style is straightforward and strengths-focused. Conversations aim to surface practical steps you can try between sessions.
She encourages small changes that add up over time and checks in about what is working and what needs adjusting. Clients will find a steady, experienced guide who listens and helps set realistic goals. Betty emphasizes skills that reduce anxiety and improve coping with life changes.
She treats relationship difficulties, anger, self-esteem concerns, and symptoms of depression with an emphasis on problem solving and clearer priorities. Sessions can include short-term coaching goals or longer work on deeper issues. She helps people explore options, try new habits, and track progress.
If you want a pragmatic, experienced clinician who respects your perspective, Betty offers that practical partnership.
Practical therapeutic approaches and online care
Betty uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and goals. One common approach emphasizes behavioral strategies - identifying small actions you can try to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or manage anger. These tactics are concrete and aimed at producing quick, testable changes.Another worthwhile approach she blends in is coaching-oriented work for professionals. This focuses on career planning, workplace stress, and decision-making. It helps clarify priorities, set actionable goals, and create steps that fit a busy schedule.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the first sessions. Betty works together with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She reviews what's helping and adjusts plans as you go so the work stays relevant and realistic.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversation without traveling. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, checking in between sessions, or when written reflection feels more comfortable. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Coaching
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York
- Languages
- English
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