About Betsy
Betsy Godoy is a Florida-based licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience. She centers therapy on each person's strengths and helps them take practical steps through hard moments. She uses a blend of attachment-focused work and client-centered listening to build trusting conversations.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness techniques are also part of her toolkit to address anxiety, depression, and everyday stress. She offers EMDR for people who are processing trauma and abuse.
How Betsy works
Her practice supports people coping with relationship and family strain, parenting pressures, and issues that affect daily life such as sleep, eating, and anger. She also works with concerns like addiction, grief, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, and caregiver stress.
Sessions can address career challenges, intimacy-related issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and first responder stress. She also provides support around HIV/AIDS and problems stemming from family of origin or divorce and separation. Betsy speaks English and Spanish and draws on different methods to match what each person needs.
Starting therapy is framed as a collaborative process. Betsy helps people identify goals, practice new skills, and track small changes over time. She recognizes that deciding to begin takes courage and aims to make the first steps straightforward.
Betsy lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Betsy works with
The areas below are the ones Betsy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes understanding how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use gentle conversation to trace those patterns and practice new ways of relating that reduce conflict and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying upsetting thoughts and testing them with small behavioral steps. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns by teaching concrete skills to try between sessions. EMDR is an approach used for processing trauma and abuse by combining focused memory work with guided bilateral stimulation; when appropriate, it can be adapted for online delivery with careful pacing and support.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, comfort level, and life demands. Together they try approaches, check what helps, and adjust plans so therapy remains practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and interactive skill work, phone can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth, and text-based options allow ongoing support or quick reflections between meetings. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, and busy days while keeping the focus on progress and problem solving.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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