Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
How Bette works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Arizona, North Carolina, Arkansas
- Years in practice
- 28
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Bette
Bette Blondin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of practice experience. She works in Arizona and brings a calm, down-to-earth manner to sessions. Parents and adults often find her approachable and easy to talk with when stress or upset surfaces.
Bette focuses on everyday problems like anxiety, depression, grief, and anger. She also helps people who are coping with life changes, parenting challenges, blended family issues, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
Her work includes concerns around sleep, eating, body image, chronic illness, and caregiver stress. Her style is practical and flexible. She blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness tools to match what a person needs in the moment.
She uses hypnotherapy when it fits a client’s goals and comfort level. Sessions aim to identify clear steps a person can try between meetings. Bette prefers short, concrete goals alongside emotional support.
She helps people break problems into manageable pieces and build on strengths they already have. Clients can expect a calm presence and straightforward guidance. She values nonjudgmental listening and works to create a steady space for working through hard feelings.
Bette encourages collaboration so people feel involved in planning their next steps rather than told what to do.
What Bette works with
Everything Bette lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Bette's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Bette lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic methods translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience without judgment. Online sessions using this approach let the therapist follow the client’s lead, reflect feelings, and help them set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and tests simple changes in daily life; online formats work well for homework, skill practice, and tracking progress between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and grounding skills to reduce reactivity and manage stress; brief guided practices can be delivered live or as short messages to support practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust as progress is made. This is a collaborative process where the client’s preferences and comfort guide the plan rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people engage face-to-face when a fuller connection is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins, brief coaching, or follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy life.
Questions people ask about Bette
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, relationship and parenting challenges, plus issues like sleep, eating, chronic pain, and caregiver stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is down-to-earth and collaborative, combining client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness exercises to create practical steps.
How much experience does she have?
She has 28 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker working in independent practice and related settings.
Where is she licensed and based?
She practices in Arizona and holds LCSW credentials including Arizona and Arkansas listings as documented.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for remote appointments.
How are fees and payment structured?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.