About Bethany
Bethany Kulp helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. She supports those dealing with sleep problems, addictions, parenting strain, career concerns, bipolar mood issues, and compassion fatigue. She also offers care for LGBT concerns and for people coping with big life changes.
Bethany is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience and practices from Texas. Her sessions are collaborative and goal-focused.
Background and approach
She listens with empathy and uses straightforward tools to reduce distress. Clients learn practical coping skills and ways to notice and change thoughts that make things harder. Bethany uses cognitive approaches alongside mindfulness and body-centered work to help people feel steadier.
She blends strategies that teach grounding, emotion regulation, and clearer thinking. The aim is to build skills people can use outside of sessions. Her background includes twenty years in behavioral health and a Texas LCSW license.
That experience includes supporting those with complex stress responses and long-term struggles. Bethany draws on varied methods so she can tailor work to each person’s needs. In sessions she helps people sort priorities, set realistic goals, and practice new habits.
Conversations are practical and paced to what the person can handle. The focus is on small, steady changes that add up to better functioning and less suffering.
Approaches that translate well to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with concrete behavioral experiments. It helps with anxiety, depression, panic, and compulsive patterns by teaching clear steps to change reactions and routines.Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes present-moment attention and simple practices to reduce reactivity. It supports stress, sleep problems, and emotional overwhelm by teaching grounding and breathing skills people can use anytime. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills are useful for intense moods, panic attacks, and repetitive coping patterns.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick strategies that match their goals, needs, and daily life. Methods can be mixed and adjusted as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video makes it possible to have face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone calls work well when video is not practical, such as lower bandwidth or needing a quicker check-in. Chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between sessions. The range of formats aims to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English