About Betsy
Betsy Salomon-Auguste is a licensed clinician practicing in Illinois. She brings 22 years of experience as an LCPC and focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported.
Betsy creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through difficult feelings. She listens for what matters most to each person and helps them name worries and patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
Conversations move at the client’s pace, and each session has simple, practical aims. She often helps people who are struggling with grief, trauma and abuse, or low self-esteem. She also supports concerns about intimacy, family problems, and parenting stress.
Betsy works with people facing career questions, life transitions, and feelings of anger or guilt. Additionally, she addresses struggles linked to abandonment, codependency, communication breakdowns, infidelity, and jealousy. She also assists those dealing with immigration challenges, caregiving strain, and issues that arise in midlife.
Her approach bridges problem-solving with emotional understanding. In sessions she uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to reduce overwhelming symptoms and build skills for daily life. She encourages small, steady steps so change feels doable.
Betsy aims to empower people to make choices that fit their values and goals.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Many people find practical, evidence-based techniques helpful for anxiety, relationship strain, and stress. Cognitive-style approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. These methods help people notice patterns and test new ways of reacting in daily life.Other useful techniques emphasize emotion recognition and processing. These approaches help people name feelings, track how emotions influence behavior, and develop safer ways to express needs in relationships or during conflict. Both approaches aim to give tools that can be practiced between sessions to create steady progress.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan based on what helps most, so therapy fits the individual's life and priorities.
Online work makes it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video calls let people interact face-to-face when visual cues are useful. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support and flexible check-ins between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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