Cicely Betts , LCSW

Cicely Betts is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas who focuses on helping women navigate relationship issues, trauma, self-esteem, and major life transitions. She uses a straightforward and compassionate style to help people identify goals and take practical steps toward them. Sessions are grounded in real conversation and a sense of humor when appropriate.

Cicely draws on eight years of clinical experience and a Master of Social Work from the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She integrates several therapy approaches to match each person’s needs rather than relying on a single method. That flexibility helps when concerns span anxiety, depression, addiction, or grief.

Her work often addresses intimate and family concerns such as communication problems, codependency, divorce and separation, and parenting stress. Cicely also supports people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care challenges, body image struggles, and caregiver stress.

In sessions she blends practical skill-building with exploration of deeper patterns. Cognitive tools help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, while client-centered attention and psychodynamic ideas can surface long-held patterns that keep repeating. Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques are used to increase present-moment awareness and values-based action.

Cicely aims to build a collaborative plan with clear steps you can use between sessions. She balances direct feedback with warmth so people feel heard and challenged in useful ways. Outside clinical work she enjoys drawing, writing, and designing organizational tools that reflect her practical approach to change.

How her approach fits online therapy

Cicely commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which focuses on helping people notice thoughts without getting stuck and take actions that match their values; this can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, useful for stress, mood concerns, and anger. Client-Centered Therapy is part of her work too, offering steady, nonjudgmental listening that helps people feel understood as they sort things out.

Finding the right mix of these approaches is a collaborative process. She works with each person to decide which methods match their goals, preferences, and daily life. That means trying tools in sessions, reviewing how they feel in between, and adjusting the plan together so therapy stays useful.

Online formats make that collaboration easier to fit into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers short check-ins during a hectic day, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options provide flexibility so therapy can happen in ways that match real-life routines and practical needs.