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Betsy Godoy, LCSW
Florida
LCSW - Anxiety and family concerns
See online therapy options- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Attachment focus
- Mindfulness practice
About Betsy
Betsy Godoy is an LCSW licensed in Florida with 12 years of professional therapy experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and related issues. She frames the client as the expert on their own story and builds on strengths to address current challenges.
She uses practical methods that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and patterns while also attending to relational and attachment dynamics. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Betsy helps people notice what keeps problems going and practices alternative ways of responding.
Her background includes work with a broad range of concerns such as mood symptoms, grief, addiction, and relationship strain. She also supports people facing adoption and foster care issues, attachment questions, caregiver stress, and communication problems. This experience informs how she approaches safety and pacing when trauma or abuse is part of the history.
Betsy draws on several approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, attachment-based ideas, client-centered techniques, EMDR, and mindfulness. She uses these tools to address symptoms, coping strategies, and relational patterns rather than to label or diagnose on their own.
Sessions can explore practical skills for sleep, emotion regulation, and managing anger or cravings. Betsy also works with people navigating career strain, LGBTQ concerns, ADHD-related challenges, and forgiveness or guilt issues. To start, she invites people to acknowledge the courage in reaching out and begin a focused plan of work together.
How Betsy uses structured approaches in online work
Many of her methods focus on clear steps you can practice between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep stress and anxiety going and replaces them with small experiments and new coping skills. Attachment-based ideas look at how past relationships shape current reactions and help people try different ways of relating in close connections.She also uses client-centered techniques that focus on listening and reflecting so the person's priorities drive the work. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process; she will work together with the person to choose which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences rather than imposing a single style.
Session formats are not detailed in the provided biography, so confirm the available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to schedule appointments around work, caregiving, or travel. It can also allow shorter check-ins when needed, or let someone avoid commutes while keeping regular weekly work. Licensed professionals and therapists often use these practical benefits to help therapy fit into everyday life.
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Experience
12+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English, Spanish
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with most often?
She works with stress, anxiety, family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, and related concerns such as grief, addiction, and mood symptoms.
How does she use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
She uses CBT to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and habits and to practice different ways of responding. Sessions include concrete skills and behavioral experiments to test new approaches.
What is her professional background?
She has 12 years of therapy experience and has worked with people facing trauma, addiction, family problems, and caregiving stress among other issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the LCSW credential and is licensed in Florida.
Which languages are supported during sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions scheduled and what formats are used?
Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the biography. Check the platform's scheduling flow for available session types.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
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