About Beth
Beth Allen is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Pennsylvania with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief. Beth aims to offer a steady, compassionate presence so people feel heard and understood.
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people identify what matters most and take small steps toward those values.
Background and approach
For trauma and intense memories, she uses EMDR methods alongside stabilizing skills when appropriate. Beth pays attention to patterns that begin in family relationships and to issues like codependency, abandonment, and caregiver stress. She helps people sort through shame, guilt, and feelings of emptiness while building clearer boundaries and self-care routines.
Sessions often include skill practice, short experiments between meetings, and reflective processing. Her work also addresses addictions, self-harm thoughts, mood disorders, and compassion fatigue. People can expect a mix of supportive listening and hands-on strategies aimed at steady change.
The focus is on practical steps that fit daily life and personal values. Beth speaks English and offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters to them and take small consistent steps toward those things, even when uncomfortable feelings remain. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and testing them with actions. It is practical for managing mood, worry, and habits by offering concrete strategies and short experiments. EMDR approaches address disturbing memories and intense reactions by pairing focused memory work with guided processing to reduce distress from past events.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can change over time as progress unfolds and priorities shift.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so sessions can fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversation and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and messaging are convenient for brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or when logging thoughts between appointments. These options support consistent work without needing to travel and make it easier to schedule sessions around daily responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English