About Beverly
Beverly Hodsden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with 38 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and relationship struggles. Beverly aims to make therapy approachable and straightforward for worried parents and busy adults.
She uses a person-focused way of working that centers on each client's story and goals. Sessions include practical steps to ease symptoms, build coping skills, and improve communication.
How Beverly works
Beverly helps people find small changes that make daily life more manageable. Her toolkit includes cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts, motivational interviewing to support behavior change, and trauma-focused methods for processing painful experiences. She also draws on solution-focused ideas to set clear short-term goals.
These approaches are used together to match what a person needs in the moment. Beverly has spent decades helping people with a wide range of concerns including grief, sleep problems, eating issues, parenting stress, ADHD, and work-related strain. She also addresses attachment issues, body image, codependency, and first responder concerns.
Her experience includes working with mood disorders, panic attacks, and coping with big life changes. The work is collaborative. Beverly helps people clarify what matters, then chooses strategies that fit their life.
Sessions aim to be practical, respectful, and paced to each person's comfort level.
Beverly lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Beverly works with
The areas below are the ones Beverly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 38 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
How Beverly's approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. In online sessions this means the therapist spends time hearing concerns, reflecting back what matters, and helping people identify their own goals and strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them; online CBT can include short exercises, thought logs, and concrete homework to practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Beverly collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, current needs, and how they prefer to work. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan if something feels unhelpful so people stay active in shaping their care.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a quieter connection is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or getting support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to stick with the work over time.
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A practical next step
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