Betsy Godoy, LCSW

Betsy Godoy is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of practice in Florida. She centers sessions on practical skills and clear steps so people can manage stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Spanish and works with a wide range of life concerns using down-to-earth language.

Betsy uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She pairs that with attachment-based ideas to look at how important relationships shape feelings and responses. Her approach is also client-centered, which means she follows each person's goals and values rather than imposing a plan.

In sessions she helps people cope with trauma, parenting challenges, and problems tied to addiction or grief. She also supports work on relationships, intimacy, self-esteem, sleep, eating struggles, and managing mood conditions like depression and bipolar disorder. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and caregiver stress.

Betsy draws on EMDR and mindfulness when those tools fit the situation. She likes to teach simple exercises clients can practice between meetings. The emphasis stays on small, achievable steps that make daily life feel more manageable.

She recognizes that beginning therapy takes courage and centers clients as experts in their own story. To start, a person answers a short matching questionnaire and then schedules sessions based on availability.

How Betsy Uses Therapy Approaches Online

CBT helps people spot patterns of thinking that keep problems going and test small behavior changes to see what works. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep and habits that interfere with daily life.

Attachment-based work looks at how past and current relationships shape emotions and reactions. This approach can help with parenting challenges, relationship strain, and attachment issues tied to adoption or foster care.

Client-centered therapy keeps the conversation focused on each person's goals and values. The therapist listens and reflects so clients can make choices that fit their lives rather than following a preset plan.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, preferences, and goals and suggest techniques that fit. That process can include trying different tools such as mindfulness, EMDR elements, or CBT exercises to see what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy schedules. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching or reminders between sessions.