About Bethany
Bethany Maroney-Peterson is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing anxiety, phobias, trauma and abuse, depression, and relationship struggles. She brings 16 years of clinical experience to sessions and works with issues like parenting stress, grief, anger, and compassion fatigue. Bethany uses clear, practical steps to help people cope with life changes and improve daily functioning.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She listens first, then helps clients set small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings, not just talk. Bethany aims to tailor approaches to each person’s situation and strengths. In therapy she draws on attachment-based work to explore how early relationships shape current patterns.
She also uses client-centered methods to keep conversations focused on the person’s priorities. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Bethany has particular interest in family-related stress such as adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, and caregiver strain.
She also supports people dealing with first responder stress, cancer-related distress, and life disruptions after natural or human-caused disasters. Clients can expect a collaborative approach where therapist and client build skills together. Bethany frames progress in observable steps and adapts techniques as needs change.
She practices in California as an LMFT and conducts sessions in English.
How Bethany’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based therapy looks at how early bonds influence current relationships and emotional reactions; online sessions can help identify these patterns and practice new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and perspective, giving space for people to lead topics while the therapist reflects and clarifies what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change them, which translates well to homework and short exercises between online sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Bethany will ask about your needs, goals, and what has or hasn’t helped before. She collaborates with clients to try techniques and adjust them until they fit the person’s life and priorities.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support, and practicing skills in real time. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue consistent work on goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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