About Beth
Beth Chassin is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing relationship strain, grief, depression, and big life transitions. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Beth views each person as the expert on their own life. She looks for strengths and small changes that add up. She encourages clients who feel nervous about starting therapy and recognizes that taking the first step takes courage.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens for patterns that cause pain, then tests simple new ways of responding. Conversations often include concrete communication skills, ways to manage intense feelings, and planning for realistic changes. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can handle.
Her background spans two decades of work with adults navigating loss, family tensions, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and shifting life roles. That experience guides practical problem solving rather than abstract theory. She draws on common-sense strategies that fit day-to-day life.
People can expect clear goals and step-by-step ideas to try outside of sessions. Beth uses plain language and steady support while helping people build on what already works in their lives. The focus is on small, sustainable changes that reduce overwhelm and improve relationships.
Evidence-based approaches and online flexibility
Two common evidence-based techniques she uses are focused problem-solving and skills-based emotion work. Problem-solving breaks an issue into concrete steps and makes a plan for small, doable changes that reduce overwhelm. Skills-based emotion work teaches simple ways to recognize and manage intense feelings so they interfere less with daily life.Another useful approach is communication coaching, which looks at how conversations go wrong and practices clearer, calmer ways to speak and listen. This can help with recurring arguments, commitment worries, and blended family tensions by giving people specific tools to try between sessions.
Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she tailors techniques and checks in regularly to adjust the plan as needed so the work fits each person's life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues during talks, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, and health demands while keeping therapy consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English