About Bethany
Bethany Odom is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Texas. She brings five years of experience helping people sort through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. Bethany aims to make sessions straightforward and practical so families and individuals can find relief and direction.
Her work often addresses parenting challenges, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem struggles. She also supports people facing career questions, caregiving burdens, chronic illness, and issues around adoption and foster care.
Background and approach
Bethany uses clear, goal-oriented methods so clients leave sessions with steps they can try right away. In the room she emphasizes listening first. She helps people name what matters, then builds simple strategies to manage strong feelings and painful memories.
She draws on tools from client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapies to reshape unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. Bethany also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to help with emotional regulation and staying present. When appropriate she uses emotionally-focused techniques to improve communication and connection.
Her style is collaborative: she checks in often and adjusts plans to match each person’s needs. She offers several remote formats including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel heard and guides sessions around their goals and values.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for handling intense emotions and improving emotional regulation. It can be useful for people who struggle with impulsivity, strong mood swings, or ongoing stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and preferences and recommend strategies from these approaches that fit those goals. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills; phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, real-time coping strategies, or when someone prefers written communication. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English