Betsy Salomon-Auguste is an Illinois licensed counselor who offers direct, practical support for people feeling stuck, worried, or overwhelmed.
01About Betsy
Betsy Salomon-Auguste is an Illinois licensed counselor who offers direct, practical support for people feeling stuck, worried, or overwhelmed. She draws on over 22 years of experience to help clients name problems and take small steps toward change. Sessions aim to be warm and straightforward so people can talk honestly about what matters to them.
In sessions she focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, family conflict, and parenting strain.
Background and approach
Betsy works with people facing grief, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. She raises practical options and helps clients try what fits their life. Her background includes many years of work with adults across common life challenges.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions toward clear goals. The work often combines short-term skill building and longer conversations about patterns that keep causing pain. People meet to explore self-esteem, career direction, and identity issues, including LGBT concerns.
Additional areas include abandonment, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems. Betsy also supports those dealing with infidelity, jealousy, and midlife transition. Her approach is collaborative.
Betsy helps people set realistic goals, practice new ways of coping, and track progress. She encourages ongoing adjustments so treatment stays relevant to each person’s goals.
02Credentials
- LCPC (Illinois)
- License 180.012298 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1811821960 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Betsy lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
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04Online support
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many clients benefit from practical, evidence-based techniques that teach new ways to manage feelings and relationships. Cognitive-style approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new, balanced perspectives to reduce anxiety and low mood. Skill-focused work such as behavioral activation or coping skills training helps people add steady routines and activities that lift mood and reduce avoidance.Another useful approach centers on relationship and communication work. This involves mapping patterns in how people relate and practicing different responses in sessions so interactions at home or work can change. These kinds of approaches help with intimacy problems, family conflict, and issues like jealousy or codependency.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and full discussion. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief coaching into a work break. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent and flexible while pursuing personal goals.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can I bring to therapy?
Betsy works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and coping with life changes. She also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, family conflict, parenting strain, and workplace or career concerns.
What is the style of therapy like?
Sessions are practical and conversational. The focus is on setting clear goals, learning new coping skills, and trying changes between sessions.
How much experience does the therapist have?
She brings 22 years of professional experience working with adults on a wide range of concerns including trauma, compassion fatigue, and self-esteem issues.
What credentials and location are listed?
The clinician holds an IL LCPC credential and practices from Illinois.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
Which session formats are available?
Therapy can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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