About Bethany
Bethany Odom is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas. She brings five years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. Bethany aims to make therapy clear and practical so people can try tools between sessions and notice change over time.
She focuses on real-life concerns like parenting challenges, caregiving strain, workplace stress, and struggles with self-esteem. ADHD is listed among her areas of focus, and she helps people manage symptoms such as impulsivity and difficulty concentrating through structured strategies.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing trauma, loss, or major life decisions. Bethany uses several well-known approaches to tailor care to each person. She draws from Client-Centered Therapy to center the person’s goals, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Mindfulness and emotionally-focused tools are used as needed. In sessions she prioritizes practical steps and collaborative planning. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, skill-building exercises, and a focus on small, achievable goals.
Bethany often blends short-term coaching techniques with deeper therapeutic work depending on what someone needs. She offers therapy in English for people living in Texas and uses multiple online formats to make care accessible. Bethany’s approach is calm, direct, and geared toward people who want usable strategies for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and strengths, offering a supportive space where the therapist follows the client’s lead and helps clarify what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs empathy and guidance to figure out next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical strategies to change patterns that maintain anxiety or depression. It is helpful for problem-solving, managing stress, and addressing unhelpful thinking. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) contributes specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and reducing impulsive reactions when they arise.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client collaborate to choose which methods fit the person’s goals, symptoms, and preferences, and they adjust the plan as progress is seen.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for a face-to-face conversation when screen time works, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to schedule consistent sessions and practice skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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