Cicely Betts
Compassionate, practical therapy for family and life issues
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cicely
Cicely Betts is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing relationship challenges, stress, anxiety, parenting questions, and life changes. She writes plainly and talks directly, so sessions are down-to-earth and focused on practical steps. Her style mixes compassion with honesty and a bit of wit to keep difficult conversations more approachable.
Cicely practices in Texas and brings eight years of clinical experience to her work. She uses a mix of therapy methods to fit each person's needs.
Background and approach
That can include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on values and committed action. Mindfulness techniques are often used to reduce reactivity and improve present-moment awareness. Cicely also draws on client-centered and psychodynamic ideas when understanding patterns and motivations.
In sessions she helps clients set clear goals and build practical strategies to reach them. Conversations often cover communication skills, boundary setting, coping with grief or trauma, and parenting concerns. Cicely emphasizes building self-awareness and stronger connections with others.
She earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work in 2012. Cicely tailors each session rather than using one fixed plan, adjusting tools and exercises to what the client needs that week. Outside of work she balances time with family and creative activities like drawing and writing.
That balance influences her approach to therapy - realistic, human, and focused on usable change.
How Cicely’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps identify personal values and encourages small committed actions toward them. It suits people who want clearer direction and fewer struggles with avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns, which often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Cicely talks with clients about their goals and preferences and adjusts methods as needed. She often blends techniques so each plan fits the person rather than forcing one style on everyone.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and daily life. Many people find the variety helpful for different needs - longer conversations over video or phone and quick check-ins by message when that works best.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point