About Bethaney
Bethaney Long is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings seven years of clinical practice to her work with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She practices in Kentucky and speaks English. Bethaney writes in a straightforward, calm way and focuses on practical steps people can use each day.
She aims to make sessions feel safe and nonjudgmental so clients can talk at their own pace.
Background and approach
Bethaney uses person-centered and evidence-based techniques to help people name problems and try different ways to cope. She helps clients build confidence and day-to-day coping skills. In sessions she works on concrete tools for managing panic, worry, and mood changes.
She supports people who are processing traumatic events, sexual assault, or bereavement. She also helps with communication problems, feelings of abandonment, guilt and shame, and issues that affect life purpose and belonging. Her clinical background includes work with children, adolescents, and adults in a range of settings over the course of her career.
That experience informs how she tailors care to each person’s age and situation. Bethaney pays attention to strengths while addressing current struggles. Clients can expect a collaborative style that mixes skill-building with emotional processing.
Sessions often include practical homework, behavior strategies, and chances to practice new responses. Bethaney aims to help people move toward clearer goals and better daily functioning.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Two common approaches used by Bethaney include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and trauma-focused techniques. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice patterns of thinking that increase anxiety or low mood and then try small, practical changes in thoughts and behaviors to feel better. Trauma-focused approaches focus on helping people process difficult experiences in manageable steps and build skills to reduce distress related to past events.Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. She will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and what feels most helpful. Then she and the client decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that fit their life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick check-ins, shorter exchanges, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, or caregiving responsibilities, and they let people choose the format that feels most practical for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English