About Bethany
Bethany Kobus is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with five years of clinical counseling experience. She began her helping work as a social worker and later completed a master’s degree to move into clinical practice. Bethany focuses on clear, practical steps to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and life changes.
She meets people where they are and works with adults to untangle strong emotions like guilt, shame, and isolation.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on improving communication, building self-esteem, and finding ways to cope with everyday pressures. Bethany draws on familiar, evidence-based methods to create goals that fit each person’s life. Her background includes work in outpatient settings with children, adolescents, and adults, and she brings that range into individual work with adults now.
Bethany trained at SUNY Plattsburgh for her bachelor’s degree in social work and holds a master’s from Medaille College. She lists Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy among her approaches. In sessions she aims for a balance of practical skills and emotional understanding.
She supports parents coping with parenting stress and people managing relationship or family-of-origin problems. Bethany also addresses caregiving strain, chronic health challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, and grief. People who prefer a straightforward, compassionate therapist may find her approach helpful.
She offers work focused on real-life change and emotional relief, with attention to each person’s cultural background and personal strengths.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions by focusing on what matters rather than on trying to stop every difficult thought.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in close relationships and how those patterns affect current bonds. This approach helps with intimacy issues, communication problems, and family-of-origin concerns by identifying and changing unhelpful relationship habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they try different strategies and adjust the plan based on what is helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls use less bandwidth and can be easier during a break, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options help people access consistent care without long commutes and allow scheduling that matches work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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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