Beverly Hodsden, LPC

Beverly Hodsden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with 38 years of clinical experience. She uses straightforward therapy to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and other life challenges.

Beverly focuses on helping clients build practical skills for everyday life. She pays attention to relationship patterns, attachment concerns, and issues like body image or codependency. Sessions aim to help people improve communication, manage strong emotions, and make sensible changes that fit their lives.

Her work draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered methods. Beverly also uses motivational interviewing, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused work when they fit a person’s goals. These approaches are used to address mood disorders, panic, ADHD challenges, and recovery from abuse or substance problems.

People meet her for help with career stress, parenting strain, grief, and midlife transitions. She also supports those dealing with multicultural concerns, first responder stress, and compassion fatigue. Beverly frames treatment around what the individual wants to change and what will work in their daily routines.

Sessions are practical and conversational. Beverly helps people set clear, manageable goals and works with them to try new coping strategies. The emphasis is on steady progress and on skills people can use outside sessions.

How Beverly’s approaches fit online care

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, panic, and mood problems. It often uses concrete exercises and homework that translate well to remote sessions.

Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a strong therapeutic connection. This approach helps people feel heard, explore values, and set goals at their own pace, which can be effective over video or phone when conversation and rapport matter most.

Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change addictive behaviors or to make tough life changes. It uses guided questions and reflective listening to build motivation, and it adapts well to check-ins by chat or text as well as live conversations.

Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Beverly will discuss goals and preferences and then recommend strategies to try first. The plan can be adjusted over time based on what works for the person.

Online sessions offer flexibility. Video calls let therapists observe body language and have fuller conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short updates, homework review, or stepping in between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, and other routines.