Bethany Kobus , LMHC

Bethany Kobus is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who combines clinical training with extensive social work experience to support clients across the lifespan. She holds the credential LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) and has five years of clinical experience alongside ten years working as a social worker, providing care to children, adolescents, and adults in an outpatient clinic setting.

Her academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in social work from SUNY Plattsburgh and a master’s degree from Medialle College. Bethany focuses on helping people navigate complex life challenges, including depression, anxiety, panic disorder, ADHD, trauma, and major life transitions. She also offers support for relationship and family concerns, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting struggles, and compassion fatigue among other areas.

Bethany’s practice centers on compassionate, affirming engagement that honors each person’s history and strengths. She emphasizes holistic healing, cultivating self-compassion, improving communication, and processing strong emotions such as guilt, shame, and isolation. Her therapeutic work draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, client-centered (Rogerian) approaches, and dialectical behavior therapy, and additionally integrates perspectives like feminist theory, poly vagal theory, somatic approaches, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when appropriate. Bethany aims to provide personalized strategies for growth and practical tools to manage stress and everyday challenges.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify their values and take practical steps toward a meaningful life while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and navigating life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns of relating - it works with issues like attachment concerns, intimacy-related struggles, and family dynamics by building awareness and new ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship in which the therapist offers empathy and support so clients can explore their goals and develop self-direction; this approach is helpful for improving self-esteem, communication, and processing strong emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Bethany collaborates with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. She draws on her training to tailor interventions and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds so the work feels relevant and doable.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call or phone, and shorter exchanges can occur through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity across life changes, and access licensed professionals from different locations while preserving the therapeutic connection and momentum.