About Cicely
Cicely Betts is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people in Texas navigate relationship struggles, trauma, low mood, anxiety, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel approachable and practical. Cicely focuses on building clearer communication, stronger self-awareness, and better coping skills so people can move forward with more confidence.
She brings eight years of clinical experience and a Master of Social Work from the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work.
Background and approach
Cicely adapts sessions to each person’s needs and preferences rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. She draws on several therapeutic approaches to find what works in real life. Sessions are direct and compassionate, with room for honesty and even some lightness when appropriate.
Cicely helps people set goals, try new ways of responding to stress, and practice skills between meetings. She believes clients are the experts on their lives and works alongside them to identify practical steps forward. Her work covers many concerns such as coping with grief, parenting stress, addiction, body image, intimacy issues, and career transitions.
She also supports people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, caregiving strain, and challenges tied to domestic violence and separation. Cicely uses tools from acceptance-based work, cognitive approaches, mindfulness, and psychodynamic thinking to tailor care. Outside her clinical role she values time with loved ones and creative pursuits like drawing and writing.
That balance influences an approach that aims to be useful, realistic, and human.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Cicely often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps that match their values. This approach can be useful for anxiety, stress, and making changes that matter. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical experiments to shift mood and behavior. CBT is commonly used for depression, anxiety, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cicely talks with each person about goals and preferences, and then tailors methods to match those needs. She checks in often to adjust the plan so it stays useful and relevant to daily life.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or cameras are not preferred. Live chat and text messaging are handy for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or ongoing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, and busy schedules while keeping the work focused and goal-oriented.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English