Betsy Godoy, LCSW

Betsy Godoy is a Florida-licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She centers each conversation on the person in front of her and looks for strengths to draw on. Betsy frames the first step of reaching out as a brave choice and aims to make the next steps clear and practical.

Betsy focuses on stress and anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting, and addictions. She also supports people facing grief, career strain, mood challenges such as depression or bipolar symptoms, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Additional areas of focus include adoption and foster care, attachment challenges, and caregiver stress.

Her work blends approaches that pay attention to relationships and to how someone thinks and copes. In sessions she helps people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and practice skills that reduce distress. She also uses trauma-informed techniques when past experiences keep disrupting daily life.

Betsy offers help in English and Spanish. She draws on motivation-focused conversations when people are weighing change or recovery, and uses mindfulness tools to calm the body and mind. Her aim is to build a plan that fits a person’s life and goals.

People who choose Betsy can expect a respectful, down-to-earth process that balances emotional support with practical steps. She encourages gradual progress and checks in about what is and isn’t working so the plan can change as needed.

Approaches that translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at how connection and trust affect feelings and behaviors, and it can be useful for family-related concerns, attachment issues, and relationship patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is practical and often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and sleep or eating concerns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they choose techniques that fit the client's needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Confirm the therapist's current session options before booking because specific formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, and making scheduling around work or caregiving obligations simpler. Many people find it easier to practice skills between sessions when therapy fits into a normal weekday or evening routine.