About Bethany
Bethany Sparkman helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or worn down by life. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable. Bethany is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Tennessee with five years of experience.
She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and anger. She also supports people coping with addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, and intimacy or relationship concerns. Bethany works with issues such as self-esteem, body image, and parenting stress as well as career and life transitions.
How Bethany works
Her approach centers on the person's own goals and strengths. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and to build different habits. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice difficult feelings while moving toward values-based choices.
Bethany includes client-centered conversation and practical skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotional regulation and interpersonal skills are needed. For people with past trauma she can use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing as part of a plan to reduce distressing memories. Sessions are straightforward and focused on small, realistic steps.
Bethany aims to partner with each person so they feel supported and able to try new ways of coping. She encourages gradual change and checks progress along the way.
Bethany lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Approach and online care that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an option for people with haunting memories from trauma, aimed at reducing the intensity of those memories over time.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to decide which methods match their concerns, goals, and comfort level. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more convenient. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from anywhere with internet. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer quick check-ins and written reflections between longer sessions. These options support consistency, flexible scheduling, and easier access to licensed professionals when life is busy.
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