About Bethany
Bethany Maroney-Peterson helps people dealing with trauma, anxiety, depression, parenting stress, relationship struggles, grief, and work-related compassion fatigue. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 16 years of experience and brings a calm, direct style to sessions. Bethany meets clients where they are and focuses on practical skills people can use right away.
She uses clear, goal-oriented techniques alongside deeper work about attachment and relationship patterns. Sessions combine problem-solving with attention to how past hurts continue to shape current reactions.
How Bethany works
Her approach blends several methods to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections affect trust and intimacy.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Solution-Focused Therapy supply tools for emotion regulation and short-term planning. She has worked with a wide range of concerns for many years, including abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, first responder issues, domestic violence, and coping after disasters.
Bethany also supports people facing chronic illnesses such as cancer and those managing bipolar disorder or ADHD. Sessions are offered from California and are delivered using formats that fit clients’ schedules. She uses a collaborative, strengths-oriented stance and helps people build skills for healthier relationships and more manageable day-to-day life.
Bethany lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Bethany works with
The areas below are the ones Bethany selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns of trust and closeness. It helps people who struggle with intimacy, abandonment fears, or unstable relationship reactions by exploring connection needs and building new ways of relating.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is practical for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes by teaching clear strategies to reframe thinking and try small behavior experiments.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be a team effort. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, explain options, and adapt techniques so the work fits your life and what you want to change. That collaborative planning happens in the first sessions and can shift as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy days. Video calls let you work face to face from wherever you are, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care when schedules or location make in-person visits difficult.
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