About Beverly
Beverly Hodsden is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 38 years of clinical experience in New Jersey. She focuses on clear, practical help for people coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and ADHD. Beverly uses straightforward conversation and steady support to help people handle hard moments and make manageable changes.
Her style centers on the person in front of her. She listens closely and helps clients set small, useful goals. Sessions often include talking through patterns, trying new ways of responding, and practicing skills between meetings.
Background and approach
Beverly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create an accepting space, and Motivational Interviewing to boost readiness for change. These methods are used to address mood concerns, substance challenges, sleep and eating problems, and stress at work or home.
She has long experience with trauma-focused work and supports people who are rebuilding after difficult events. Beverly also helps with relationship stress, communication problems, attachment issues, and feelings of guilt or shame. Her approach aims to reduce overwhelm and increase practical coping skills.
Clients describe practical steps and clearer thinking as goals of therapy with Beverly. She supports people through life transitions, career questions, and identity-related stress. Sessions are offered in English and take place using a range of online formats.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a non-judgmental, accepting conversation where the client's experience leads the work. This approach helps people feel heard and clarifies what matters to them before choosing steps to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In sessions clients learn to spot unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and attention challenges.
Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to build readiness for change. It uses questions and reflection to help people find their own reasons to try new habits, which can be useful when facing addiction or major life shifts.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Beverly works with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences, adjusting plans as progress is made. That collaborative planning helps keep work focused and practical.
Online therapy with Beverly uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier with limited bandwidth, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing prompts and homework. These options make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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