About Betsy
Betsy Salomon-Auguste is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 22 years of experience in Illinois. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate relationship and family concerns. Her approach aims to make the first steps toward change less intimidating and more possible.
Betsy creates a calm space where people can talk about painful topics without judgment. She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and works with each person to try practical changes.
How Betsy works
Conversations are straightforward and focused on small, doable steps that build toward longer term goals. Her work covers a wide range of issues, from intimacy concerns and self-esteem struggles to grief and trauma. She also helps with parenting strain, career stress, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
Additional focus areas include abandonment, codependency, communication problems, and midlife questions. Betsy supports people facing aging and caregiver stress, immigration-related strain, and problems tied to infidelity or jealousy. She offers guidance around forgiveness, guilt and shame, and finding life purpose.
Mens issues and fatherhood concerns are also part of her practice. Sessions can include coaching-style work for goal setting alongside therapeutic conversations about feelings and relationships. Betsy aims to tailor each plan to the persons situation and pace.
People can expect clear suggestions and space to try new ways of coping.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and why they help
Therapeutic conversations focus on practical techniques that reduce symptoms and improve everyday functioning. One common method involves identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new, more balanced ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. This approach is useful for worry, stress, and depression because it gives clear experiments to try between sessions.Another helpful direction concentrates on relationship patterns and communication. Sessions look at how interactions unfold and teach small behavior changes and communication skills that can ease conflict and build intimacy. This is especially useful for relationship, family, and parenting concerns.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to pick techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what proves most useful in real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or fit brief counseling into a work break. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit it into everyday life.
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