About Bethany
Bethany Livingston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida. She focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, or facing low self-esteem. Parents and individuals often contact her about eating concerns, mood swings, and trouble coping with big life changes.
Her style is straightforward and person-centered. She listens first to understand what matters most to each person. From there she uses practical tools drawn from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness practices to build new habits and clearer thinking.
Background and approach
Bethany brings 11 years of clinical experience to sessions. That experience includes supporting people with depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD challenges, relationship strain, and obsessive or compulsive behaviors. She also works with issues like body image, codependency, forgiveness, and sexual concerns.
Sessions are designed to feel collaborative. Bethany helps clients set realistic goals and tries short experiments in thinking or behavior to see what helps. Progress is tracked in ordinary ways, such as mood changes, improved routines, or better communication.
Practical matters are handled simply. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a person completes a brief matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist's availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and experiences. The therapist listens with curiosity and mirrors what she hears so the person feels understood and in charge of direction. This approach helps when someone needs a clear, respectful space to sort priorities and values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. Sessions use simple exercises to spot unhelpful thinking and try different responses. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, obsessive thoughts, and behavior patterns that cause distress.
Mindfulness therapy teaches attention skills to notice present-moment experience without judgment. Short practices in session help reduce reactivity and increase steady focus, which can support stress, cravings, and emotional ups and downs.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a short break or low-bandwidth need, and live chat or text messaging support brief check-ins and reflective notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping a consistent course of care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Oregon
- Languages
- English