About Bethany
Bethany Virgilio is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, phobias, depression, and changes in relationships. She keeps conversations straightforward and nonjudgmental so clients can leave with new ways to cope. Her style aims to make goals feel manageable and practical.
Bethany uses mindfulness tools to help people gain calm and focus. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to break unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
These methods are presented in plain language and practiced with simple exercises between sessions. She brings extensive experience working with anxiety and panic-related concerns, and she regularly addresses issues such as trauma, grief, self-esteem, parenting stress, and caregiver burnout. Bethany also helps people facing life transitions like divorce, career change, and midlife questions.
Her approach is collaborative and client-centered. She listens first, then suggests steps clients can try right away. Sessions often include short behavioral tasks, breathing or mindfulness practice, and clear, achievable goals to track progress.
Bethany is a Rhode Island LICSW, and she offers work that combines practical skills with compassionate support. She works with adults across a wide range of concerns and believes small changes can make daily life feel more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, phobias, and decisions about life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which can reduce panic, anxiety, and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and meeting each person where they are, helping people feel heard and supported as they explore solutions.Bethany approaches choice of method as a team effort. She will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and then try approaches that fit those needs. Together they check what helps and adjust the plan over time so work in sessions matches real life challenges.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises that mimic in-person sessions. Phone sessions can work well when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, or when a shorter interruption during the day is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments while using the methods described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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