About Betty
Betty Collins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 28 years of experience. She focuses on helping adults move through difficult changes and create a more satisfying life. Her style is straightforward and flexible, aimed at practical progress rather than jargon.
Betty draws on several therapy approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral techniques, Emotionally-Focused methods, Dialectical Behavior strategies, and a client-centered stance.
How Betty works
Sessions emphasize clear goals, skill-building, and honest reflection. Clients often come for stress, anxiety, relationship or intimacy concerns, parenting and blended-family challenges, grief, trauma, or work-related strain. She also helps with addiction issues, ADHD, self-esteem, and questions about life purpose.
Her practice includes support for LGBT concerns and women’s issues. Her way of working is collaborative. She listens, reflects back what she hears, and helps people test new behaviors between sessions.
Counseling is practical and tailored - Betty adapts tools so they fit each person’s life. She also offers coaching-style support for career and performance goals. That work focuses on unlocking personal strengths and improving productivity.
People who want steady encouragement and clear next steps tend to find this approach helpful.
Betty lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Betty works with
The areas below are the ones Betty selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) 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, life changes, and finding direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing different behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve coping. It works well for stress, depression, and anxiety. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on understanding emotional patterns in relationships and building stronger connection and trust.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Betty will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then tailor techniques to fit each person. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that grows over time rather than sticking to a single method from the start.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to get ongoing support between sessions or to fit therapy into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and practice new skills in real life.
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A practical next step
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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