Bethany Maroney-Peterson , LMFT

Bethany Maroney-Peterson is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She focuses on women's issues and a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, relationship and family problems, parenting, and compassion fatigue. Bethany aims to create a calm, direct space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming and start to make small, practical changes.

She uses straightforward, goal-focused work that adapts to each person. Sessions mix skills training with talking through painful memories and current stressors. Bethany often helps people build coping tools for anger, grief, ADHD-related challenges, and life transitions.

With 16 years of clinical experience, she brings a steady, empathic presence to sessions. Her style is warm and relaxed while keeping conversations focused and actionable. She emphasizes working together to find what helps most for a person's situation.

Her approach blends Attachment-Based therapy, Client-Centered therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Solution-Focused methods, and trauma-focused work. These methods are used to address intimacy issues, abandonment, attachment concerns, and patterns like codependency or control problems.

Bethany offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit different needs. Sessions are provided in English and are scheduled through an online matching and booking process.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based work focuses on how early relationships shape current connections. Online sessions use discussion and exercises to notice patterns in intimacy, abandonment, and attachment and to try different ways of relating in daily life. Client-Centered therapy centers the person's experience and priorities. In teletherapy this looks like the therapist listening closely, reflecting what matters most, and helping the client set goals that feel useful and realistic.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Bethany collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most. Treatment is described, tested, and changed together rather than fixed from the start.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, chat and text suit brief check-ins or times when shorter, written contact fits a schedule. These options make therapy more flexible and let people fit sessions into work, caregiving, or other routines.