Bethany Kobus
Calm guidance for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Bethany
Bethany Kobus is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York with five years of clinical experience. She began her work as a social worker and has supported children, adolescents, and adults in outpatient settings. Bethany listens first and helps people name what feels overwhelming.
She aims to create a kind, respectful space for parents and caregivers to talk through challenges. Her work is practical and plainspoken. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people manage anxiety, depression, ADHD symptoms, and stress.
Background and approach
She also brings trauma-informed techniques when past hurts affect daily life. Bethany pays attention to family and parenting concerns and to issues that show up across generations. She helps with communication problems, grief, anger, and self-esteem.
She also supports people coping with caregiver stress, adoption and foster care questions, and aging-related challenges. Sessions focus on small, doable steps. That can mean learning coping skills, practicing clearer communication, or trying new ways to face difficult emotions.
Bethany works with clients to build plans that fit each person’s life and values. She offers services in English and accepts international clients. Bethany trained in social work at SUNY Plattsburgh and earned a master’s degree from Medaille College.
Her license number is NY LMHC 014244.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values. It is useful when stress, anxiety, or life changes make decision-making feel hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and problem-solving. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and supports building healthier communication and connection.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try approaches and adjust plans based on what helps in day-to-day life.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to stay consistent during transitions. Many clients appreciate being able to access sessions from home and to use chat or text for shorter check-ins between longer meetings.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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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
Next step
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- Stop at any point