About Bethany
Bethany Kobus is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with five years of clinical experience. She draws on a background in social work to support adults through stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Bethany focuses on practical coping skills and emotional regulation in sessions.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about their struggles. Before becoming an LMHC, she worked as a social worker and holds a master’s degree from Medaille College and a bachelor’s in social work from SUNY Plattsburgh.
Background and approach
That practical foundation informs how she designs treatment plans and selects strategies that match each person’s needs. Bethany uses a mix of talk-based and body-aware approaches, including somatic work, to address how stress shows up in the body as well as the mind. Her style is warm and direct.
She helps people build self-compassion, stronger communication, and clearer boundaries. Sessions often include skill practice for managing panic, improving focus for ADHD, and coping with grief or major life changes. Bethany pays attention to cultural background and personal history when shaping therapy goals.
Clients can expect collaborative goal-setting and practical homework between sessions. Bethany values steady progress over quick fixes and helps people try ideas in their daily life. She aims to make therapy feel useful and doable even when life feels overwhelming.
How Bethany Uses Approaches Online
Somatic-informed work focuses on noticing bodily sensations and how stress shows up in the body; it can help people calm the nervous system and manage physical reactions to anxiety or trauma. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values and practice small actions toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relational patterns and how early connections shape current relationship and communication problems, which can be useful for intimacy and trust issues.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose what feels most helpful, adjusting methods based on goals, preferences, and what shows up in sessions. This means working together to try techniques and reframe strategies until a good fit emerges.
Online formats offer flexible ways to do this work through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people practice body-awareness exercises together, phone can be a simpler option for check-ins, and messaging supports short reflections or coping prompts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress going when in-person visits are not possible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English