About Bethany
Bethany Odom is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas. She brings five years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. Bethany centers care on each person's needs and aims to make therapy practical and approachable.
She uses somatic-informed work alongside client-centered methods to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thought patterns and build new coping skills.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy methods are also part of her toolbox when they fit a client's goals. Sessions tend to be straightforward and skills-oriented. Bethany helps people develop clear strategies for communication, emotion regulation, and problem solving.
She also supports clients dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image concerns, and issues tied to adoption or foster care. People looking for guidance with career questions, life purpose, or midlife transitions will find practical focus in sessions. She also addresses eating and food-related issues, guilt and shame, and impulses that disrupt daily life.
Bethany adapts the pace and tools to what each person needs. Therapy is offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Bethany holds Texas license TX LPC 88752 and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How Bethany blends body-focused and skills-based work online
Somatic-informed therapy helps people notice where feelings live in the body and learn simple ways to ease tension or overwhelm. This approach can be useful for anxiety, trauma-related reactions, chronic pain, and moments when emotions feel stuck.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting space. The therapist follows each person's pace and helps them clarify goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors, offering clear steps to change unhelpful patterns and reduce distress.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences rather than applying one fixed model. That makes sessions more tuned to real-life concerns and goals.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. These formats make it easier to access regular support from Texas without commuting. They also allow follow-up and skill practice between sessions in ways that suit each person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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