About Beth
Beth VanKeuren Maldonado is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience in Connecticut. She focuses on practical help for common and painful struggles. She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Beth works with adults on issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She also helps people manage stress, grief, addiction, sleep problems, and self-esteem issues. Her practice includes support for career strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and ADHD-related challenges.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. Sessions are focused on what matters now and on small changes that add up. She listens closely, reflects what she hears, and offers tools people can try between meetings.
Beth uses several evidence-informed methods to guide her work. She favors approaches that blend skills training, mindful awareness, and values-based action. This gives people concrete strategies for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and coping with life changes.
People who come to her can expect clear goals and a collaborative plan. She helps clients set realistic steps, practice new skills, and track progress. The goal is to leave therapy with better ways to handle daily challenges and more confidence in moving forward.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on values-driven action. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions because it shifts attention toward meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep or stress problems.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Beth will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That collaborative process includes trying tools, checking what works, and adjusting the plan over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging support shorter updates, mood tracking, coaching between sessions, and quick problem-focused exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping a steady therapeutic rhythm.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English