Betty Lustig, LMHC

Betty Lustig is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and trauma. She brings 18 years of experience and a calm, practical approach to sessions. Betty works with straightforward goals and concrete tools so clients can feel steadier day to day.

She emphasizes a respectful, accepting therapeutic relationship. That connection is the starting point for any work she does. Betty listens first, then helps clients choose interventions that match their needs and comfort.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is one of her main approaches. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to change how they feel. She also uses a Client-Centered approach, focusing on the person’s own goals and pace.

Betty has a background in community counseling and draws on nearly two decades of practice in Florida. She supports people facing complex issues like chronic pain, caregiving stress, grief around illness or loss, and attachment or family-of-origin concerns. Practical coping skills, clearer communication, and problem-solving are common focuses in her work.

Sessions can include short-term skill-building or longer work on deeper patterns. Betty aims to help people build more resilience, improve sleep and mood, and find better ways to handle life changes. She offers sessions in English and provides video, phone, chat, or messaging options.

How Betty’s Approaches Work Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the relationship. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what is heard, and follows the client’s pace and goals. That approach helps when someone needs acceptance, clarity, or a calmer place to talk about hard things.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is about practical change. Sessions break problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so clients can test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan over time. Clients and therapist decide together which combination of listening, skill practice, or problem-solving fits best.

Online sessions let people fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief updates, check-ins between sessions, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options offer flexibility and make it easier to keep continuity of care across schedules.