Bethany Livingston
Calm, practical support for stressed parents
- Credentials
- LPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Bethany
Bethany Livingston welcomes parents who are worried and need practical help. She writes in clear, direct language and focuses on making therapy feel doable for busy families. Bethany is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Florida.
She brings 11 years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and daily parenting pressures. Her work emphasizes a warm, client-centered stance. Sessions aim to identify small, useful changes that fit a family's real life.
Background and approach
She uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot patterns that keep problems going and mindfulness strategies to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Bethany has supported people with eating concerns, body image distress, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, and addiction-related behaviors. She also addresses relationship challenges such as codependency, communication problems, infidelity, jealousy, and forgiveness.
She offers straightforward ways to rebuild trust and manage strong emotions like anger and shame. Her training includes a Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology and graduate coursework in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Bethany combines that background with practical techniques so parents can try new approaches between sessions.
She explains ideas plainly and works at a steady pace. Therapy sessions may include talk, behavior strategies, and simple mindfulness exercises. Bethany helps people set realistic goals and notice small improvements.
She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapy approaches you can try online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and building a trusting working relationship. It prioritizes what matters to the client and helps set goals based on their values and daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems in place. It uses simple exercises to change unhelpful thinking and to practice new actions, which can help with anxiety, mood, and eating-related concerns.
Mindfulness therapy teaches basic attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and bring more calm into stressful moments. These practices can be helpful for managing anger, rumination, and overwhelming feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bethany will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She blends these approaches as needed and checks in regularly to make sure the plan is helpful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for parents and busy people. Video calls let sessions feel like an in-person visit without travel. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide flexible options for short check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into a packed schedule while still using proven approaches.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Oregon
- Languages
- English
Next step
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