About Betty
Betty Green Gibbs is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri with 13 years of counseling experience. She aims to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, anger, and life changes. Her work also supports concerns like ADHD, parenting challenges, career questions, intimacy issues, bipolar mood concerns, and self-esteem struggles.
She holds a Master of Arts in Professional and School Counseling and is a certified Psychological Examiner. Betty adapts sessions to each person's situation and focuses on giving practical tools that can be used between sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on building skills to manage symptoms and handle everyday problems. When thinking about how to work together, she considers what the person needs most. For distorted thinking or unhelpful thought patterns, she may use cognitive-based techniques.
For trauma and long-standing stress, she can introduce grounding and mindfulness-based practices to help reduce reactivity. Sessions aim to restore balance and promote independence. Betty prioritizes helping clients develop coping strategies, improve relationships, and move toward clear, realistic goals.
She explains methods in plain language so people can try tools right away. Therapy can include short skill-focused work or longer exploration of patterns that repeat across relationships and moods. People who want practical steps and steady guidance often find this style helpful.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Betty often uses cognitive-based techniques that help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns. Those methods teach simple skills for handling anxiety, low mood, and distorted thinking and can be practiced during and between sessions.She also draws on mindfulness and grounding techniques to help with trauma, stress, and overwhelming emotions. These practices teach people to notice physical and emotional signals and use short, concrete exercises to reduce reactivity and regain calm.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods based on goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying an approach and adjusting it if it does not fit the person's pace or situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging helps people track progress between sessions. These options let people keep continuity of care while matching the format to what works best for them.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English