Beverly Hodsden
Compassionate counseling with practical tools
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Beverly
Beverly Hodsden is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 38 years of clinical experience based in New Jersey. She uses a person-centered approach to make sessions feel respectful and practical. Beverly concentrates on common struggles such as depression, anxiety, addiction, grief, and parenting concerns.
She aims to help people find clearer communication, healthier routines, and stronger coping skills. Beverly blends hands-on techniques with calm listening to help clients tackle day-to-day problems.
Background and approach
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Motivational Interviewing is part of her work when people want to build motivation for change. Trauma-Focused Therapy is available for those processing difficult past events.
Sessions typically focus on immediate steps a person can take between meetings. Beverly helps set concrete goals and offers tools to manage stress, sleep, eating, and mood. She also addresses attachment issues, body image, codependency, and control problems when these affect functioning.
Her background includes long experience with mood disorders, panic attacks, substance use concerns, and multicultural issues. Beverly draws on practical strategies to support life transitions, midlife challenges, and career or identity questions. She keeps language simple and focuses on actions clients can try right away.
Therapy with Beverly is guided by the person's needs and pace. She works with each person to build skills for better self-esteem, healthier boundaries, and improved daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and supporting a person to find their own answers; it helps when someone needs a steady, respectful space to talk through problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers clear strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve sleep. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational approach that helps people clarify motivation and take steps toward change, useful for substance issues and behavior shifts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Beverly will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She adjusts plans based on progress and preferences so care stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers several ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between in-person commitments. For many people, remote sessions reduce travel time and allow regular check-ins, while still using the same therapeutic tools and homework that apply in an office setting.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Beverly
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point