About Cicely
Cicely Betts is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, and life changes. She uses a direct but warm style and focuses on practical steps you can try between sessions. Cicely writes and designs tools to help clients stay organized and make steady progress.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management from Dillard University and a Master of Social Work from the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work.
Background and approach
Those degrees shape her blend of practical problem solving and clinical perspective. She has eight years of experience working in clinical settings and community care. In sessions she listens closely, helps you name what matters, and builds a plan that fits your goals.
Cicely draws on a range of approaches such as cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance-based strategies, and mindfulness exercises. She emphasizes self-awareness, clearer communication, and small changes that add up over time. Her background includes work with people managing trauma, grief, addiction, parenting stress, and identity issues for LGBT clients.
She also supports concerns such as body image, codependency, and career transitions. Cicely aims to meet each person where they are and adapt methods to what actually helps. Outside of work she values family time, solo creative projects, and making tools that simplify daily life.
That same practical creativity shows up in how she structures sessions and follow-up tasks for clients.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) asks you to clarify what matters most and build small, values-driven actions into daily life. It helps with anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck by shifting attention toward meaningful goals rather than constant symptom control. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful patterns in thoughts and behaviors and testing new, practical strategies. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on your perspective and priorities and uses empathic listening to help you find your own answers. It supports self-esteem, communication, and emotional processing.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cicely will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first, adjust what’s not helping, and track progress together. That collaborative process includes setting clear goals and choosing techniques that fit your needs and preferences.
Online sessions can fit varied schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, shorter sessions, or a way to stay connected between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, parenting, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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