About Betty
Betty Gewirtz is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 30 years of professional experience. She practices in New York and brings long experience supporting people through work and life transitions. She emphasizes practical coaching alongside therapy to help clients move toward clearer goals and daily improvements.
Betty approaches each person as the expert on their own life. She helps people identify strengths they can use to face stress, anxiety, career challenges, and changes in relationships.
Background and approach
She offers steady guidance and a direct, respectful style that focuses on what a person wants to change. Sessions often include goal-setting and step-by-step planning. Betty helps clients break larger problems into manageable tasks.
She also addresses sleeping problems, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue with concrete strategies people can try between sessions. Her work includes executive and professional coaching to support career decisions, workplace stress, and leadership concerns. She supports parents who are looking for practical ways to manage parenting strain and household demands.
She also helps people who are coping with depression and life changes find clearer next steps. Betty conducts sessions in English and combines coaching and therapy tools to fit each person. She aims to make the process understandable and usable so clients can try new habits and track progress over time.
Approaches and online care that support action
Betty uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coaching. One approach emphasizes goal-setting and structured problem solving to break big challenges into manageable steps; this works well for career planning, day-to-day organization, and ADHD-related task management. Another approach centers on stress and emotion regulation skills - simple, repeatable strategies to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and handle anger in the moment.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Betty will work with each person to identify immediate goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The aim is to find techniques that feel doable and that can be practiced between sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets people share thoughts between appointments. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Coaching
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York
- Languages
- English
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