About Betsy
Betsy Salomon-Auguste is an Illinois-licensed counselor (LCPC) with 22 years of professional experience providing support for a wide range of emotional and interpersonal concerns. She helps people address stress and anxiety, relationship and family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges around self-esteem and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her work also covers career concerns, anger, parenting questions, compassion fatigue, and a variety of focused topics such as abandonment, codependency, communication problems, and immigration issues. Betsy aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore feelings and perspectives at their own pace.
She emphasizes empowerment and collaboration, guiding clients who are ready to make changes toward clearer goals and healthier patterns. Services are offered in English from Illinois, and she accepts international clients through online formats.
Sessions are delivered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and scheduling is arranged based on therapist availability. Betsy holds the Illinois LCPC credential (IL LCPC 180.012298) and brings more than two decades of experience to each therapeutic relationship.
Evidence-Based Approaches and How They Work Online
Many therapists use evidence-based techniques that focus on thought patterns, emotion regulation, and interpersonal behavior. Cognitive approaches help clients identify and reframe unhelpful thinking and are useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Skills-based work teaches practical tools for coping, emotional regulation, and communication to improve daily functioning and relationship interactions.Exploratory and trauma-informed methods help people process painful experiences and build resilience by creating space to understand how past events affect present reactions. These approaches can be especially helpful for grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns. Betsy collaborates with clients to determine which combination of techniques best matches their needs, goals, and preferences so the treatment plan fits each person's situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules or to connect from different locations. These formats support continuity of care and allow licensed professionals to use interactive tools and regular check-ins to track progress and adapt the plan as work unfolds.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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