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Bethany Kobus, LMHC

Based in New York Online sessions

Supportive counseling for parenting and stress

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Years in practice
5
Credentials
LMHC
Licensed in
New York
Languages
English
Focus
Stress, Anxiety
Focus
Family conflicts
Focus
Trauma and abuse
About

About Bethany

Bethany Kobus is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York. She brings five years of clinical counseling experience and a prior decade working as a social worker. Bethany works with adults who are managing stress, parenting challenges, relationships, grief, and the aftereffects of trauma.

Clients find practical tools in sessions. Bethany focuses on clear steps such as emotion regulation skills, communication practice, and planning for life changes.

Background and approach

She uses approaches that help people understand thoughts and behaviors and try out new ways of responding. Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in social work from SUNY Plattsburgh and a master’s degree from Medaille College. Before independent practice she treated people in an outpatient clinic, including children, adolescents, and adults, which shaped a broad clinical perspective.

Bethany aims for a warm, nonjudgmental therapy space. She pays attention to cultural background and individual strengths when supporting people through anxiety, depression, ADHD, parenting stress, or compassion fatigue. Sessions blend listening with concrete strategies tailored to each person.

In addition to core concerns, she often addresses attachment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, communication problems, and matters tied to adoption and foster care. Her work includes approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based work, dialectical behavior skills, and EMDR-informed techniques.

Focus areas and approaches

What Bethany works with

Everything Bethany lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Bethany helps people with.

Approaches Bethany lists

Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.

Online support

Approaches that guide online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for worry, life transitions, and when someone wants clearer direction despite difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and gives step-by-step tools to change patterns that lead to anxiety or depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current bonds and helps people understand connection, trust, and communication in close relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bethany collaborates with clients to identify the methods that feel useful for their goals and needs. She combines evidence-informed techniques and tailors sessions so the plan evolves as progress and preferences become clearer.

Online formats make it easier to fit counseling into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or use writing as the main form of communication. These options support flexibility, accessibility, and steady therapeutic momentum for people balancing parenting, work, or caregiving.
Questions

Questions people ask about Bethany

What issues does Bethany commonly address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, ADHD, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is warm and nonjudgmental with an emphasis on practical tools, emotion regulation, and improving communication. Sessions mix listening with concrete steps clients can try between meetings.

What experience does she bring to therapy?

She has five years of clinical counseling experience and previously worked ten years as a social worker in outpatient settings treating children, adolescents, and adults.

What credential does she hold and where is she based?

She is a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - licensed in New York and practices out of New York.

Which languages and client regions are supported?

Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.

How are fees and payment handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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