About Betty
Betty "Denise" Pope is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Georgia with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and parenting challenges. Denise focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier and more manageable.
Her style is warm and interactive. She treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions avoid stigmatizing labels and focus on the person's goals.
Denise uses a mix of approaches depending on the concern.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values even when things are hard. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods are used to set realistic goals and find practical next steps.
Narrative therapy can help people reframe painful experiences and reduce shame and self-blame. Her work covers a wide range of issues including grief, sleep and eating problems, anger, career stress, bipolar challenges, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and women’s issues. Denise aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person's situation.
If someone is ready to change, she offers steady support and clear guidance. The focus is on small, sustainable shifts that improve functioning and well-being over time.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take action toward those values even when emotions are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to change mood and behavior. It can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose and adapt methods based on goals and preferences. That may mean starting with CBT exercises, adding ACT skills for values-based change, or using motivational interviewing to build commitment to change.
Online therapy with Denise uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit into busy lives. Video is good for a face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or other obligations while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English