Betty Acierno

Betty Acierno is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the state of Florida with 11 years of experience. She works with adults who are feeling stuck or uncertain about what comes next, including concerns such as stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship problems, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue and issues related to LGBT identity.

Betty uses a relaxed, relationship-focused style in sessions. She centers conversation on what matters to the client and uses practical strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy when they fit. Mindfulness practices and Narrative Therapy are other tools she brings in to help people reflect and reframe difficult experiences.

Her background includes work in hospice where she focused on grief, loss, depression, anxiety, trauma, and anger. That experience shaped how she approaches serious life transitions and caregiving stress. She also has training and a certificate related to aging from Florida Atlantic University and earned her degrees with high honors.

In sessions she tends to balance listening with concrete steps people can try between meetings. That may look like examining unhelpful thinking patterns, testing small behavioral changes, or using short mindfulness exercises. The goal is practical: to help people clarify what matters and decide on manageable next steps.

People who are unsure what to do after a change often seek her out. She helps with abandonment issues, attachment struggles, body image, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, family of origin concerns, and caregiver stress.

How her approaches translate to online sessions

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a working relationship. In practice this means the therapist focuses on what the client brings and reflects it back to help clarify priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses simple experiments to test new habits and thinking patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy adds short exercises to help people notice their thoughts and bodily responses, which can make it easier to try different actions.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and try methods that fit those aims. If something isn’t helping, she will adjust the plan so sessions stay practical and focused on next steps.

The therapist's biography did not list specific online formats, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy routine, for example by removing travel time or allowing shorter check-ins during a break. It also lets people use mindfulness practices or homework exercises in the context of their daily life. Those practical features help keep therapeutic work connected to real-world choices without promising a particular outcome.