Betsy Godoy , LCSW

Betsy Godoy is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, and parenting concerns. She works in Florida and speaks English and Spanish. Clients meet her for support around relationships, addiction, mood concerns, and life changes. Betsy centers sessions on each person's own story and strengths. She uses approaches such as attachment work, client-centered care, cognitive behavioral ideas, EMDR, and mindfulness to guide conversations. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. Her background includes long-term clinical practice supporting people who face grief, compassion fatigue, and challenges linked to adoption, foster care, or family-of-origin wounds. She also helps those coping with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and substance use struggles. Betsy aims to make therapy a collaborative process. She helps people name what matters, try small changes, and track what helps. Many people come for help with sleep, anger, self-esteem, intimacy, or career decisions. She describes the first step as a courageous one and works to create a calm, straightforward place to talk. Sessions are offered by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How attachment, CBT, and mindfulness translate to online care

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. In online sessions this means talking through how you relate to others and trying new ways to connect and set boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors; it is often taught with simple exercises and homework that transfer well to phone or video check-ins. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and breathing or grounding practices to reduce stress and improve sleep and focus. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Betsy will collaborate with each person to pick techniques and tools that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they will try strategies, review what worked, and adjust the plan as needed. Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break or a walk. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, short reflections, or ongoing coaching-style support between sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy schedule.