Bethany Kobus, LMHC

Bethany Kobus is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with five years of clinical counseling experience and a prior ten years as a social worker. She helps adults who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, life transitions, ADHD, and trauma. Her style is calm and down-to-earth and she focuses on practical ways to manage strong emotions and everyday strain.

Bethany aims to make the first sessions feel simple and clear. She listens for what matters most and helps set small, reachable goals. Conversations often focus on skills you can use between sessions, clearer communication, and ways to reduce overwhelm.

Her background includes a bachelor of social work from SUNY Plattsburgh and a master’s degree from Medaille College. She has worked with children, adolescents, and adults in outpatient settings, and brings that clinical experience to her work with adults now.

The approach is collaborative and person-centered. Bethany draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and uses acceptance-based ideas to help people live by their values. She also incorporates attachment-focused ideas to understand relationship patterns and skills from dialectical behavioral therapy to manage intense emotions.

People often come to her for help with parenting stress, caregiver strain, relationship troubles, grief, chronic illness challenges, or feelings of low self-worth. She supports people from diverse cultural backgrounds and aims to offer practical, steady support as they work through change.

If you want straightforward, compassionate help to manage day-to-day pressures and larger life shifts, Bethany offers a calm space to talk and plan next steps.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take small actions that match their values. It can help when life changes make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. It is useful for everyday worries, panic, and low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress and needs change.

The therapist's biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow for brief check-ins when a full session isn't needed. It also lets people use techniques learned in sessions in their normal routines, and supports steady care through life transitions and chronic health challenges by keeping sessions regular and practical.