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…identified as most relevant to the specific client, to successfully address a range of life challenges and realize deeply held dreams.

Bethany believes that healing our external lives and our relationships begins with turning in love and compassion toward ourselves, and to this end she works collaboratively with individuals to help them attend deeply to what is going on internally, honor the integrity and wisdom of what is heard, reparent the wounded inner child, and begin meeting previously unmet needs.

Clients often report that the self-focused work they have done with Bethany is transforming how they feel in their relationships and other life contexts.    

In her person-centered therapeutic work, Bethany draws on the wisdom of Emotionally Focused Therapy for individuals and couples, Internal Family Systems, interpersonal process, and traditional as well as third generation CBT including mindfulness and acceptance techniques and body and breath work.

Bethany is trained in EMDR and is happy to integrate this therapy modality, which speaks more directly to our brains, as appropriate with traditional talk therapy for her client’s maximum benefit. 

Bethany graduated with a master’s degree in counseling from Indiana University’s Counseling Education Program and holds associate licensure in the state of Indiana.

She comes from a first career in the humanities, which included teaching languages, literature, composition, and translation, and wrote a thesis on poetry as a liberative practice in post-communist Russia and Poland.

Bethany is fascinated by the intersections of literature and psychology and incorporates narrative therapy and bibliotherapy techniques (i.e. therapeutically incorporating books) into her work when relevant and fully welcomed by her client.

Bethany has worked with many presenting concerns, including but not limited to anxiety and related disorders, depression and other mood disorders, relationships, student concerns (having worked extensively with college and graduate students, both American and from many countries of origin), parenting concerns, grief, spiritual confusion, obsessions and compulsions, addictions, PTSD, and relational trauma/attachment wounds.

Bethany is multiculturally oriented and seeks to understand and treat presenting concerns in the context of the whole person and clients’ overlapping identities.

In addition to working alongside clients in therapy, Bethany enjoys many other life activities like gardening, puzzling, writing poems, playing tennis, and doing all kinds of things familiar and new with her beloved husband and son. She also enjoys getting immersed in a book and looking for bright pebbles in the creek bed.

As a client, you will experience Bethany as warm, authentic, flexible, and genuinely interested in supporting you through a collaborative and mutually respectful partnership where your voice, needs, and goals matter most.