Betsy Oquendo
Compassionate, practical care for everyday challenges
LMHC New York
- Experience
- 5 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Self esteem, Career
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English, Spanish
About Betsy
Betsy Oquendo is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career concerns, depression, and major life transitions.
Background and approach
She works with clients to build practical coping skills, strengthen emotional regulation, and pursue goals that reflect their values and priorities. Her practice also addresses codependency, communication challenges, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, mood disorders, multicultural concerns, self-love, social anxiety and phobia, and women's issues.
Her counseling style emphasizes collaboration and respect for each person's unique background and strengths. Betsy blends client-centered principles with cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapy techniques to tailor interventions that match a client's needs.
Over five years of clinical work in New York have shaped a supportive, compassionate approach that aims to foster resilience and gradual, sustainable change. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and Betsy helps clients identify practical steps toward clearer thinking, improved coping, and more satisfying relationships with themselves and others.
She aims to create a therapeutic space where clients can explore challenges at a manageable pace while learning tools to navigate future stresses.
Applying Practical Approaches to Online Therapy
Client-centered therapy emphasizes understanding clients on their own terms and following their priorities, creating a respectful, strengths-based way of working that supports exploration and personal growth. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and behavior cycles and teaching concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve daily functioning. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers strategies for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness that can be especially useful when emotions feel overwhelming.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with clients to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That partnership makes it easier to select tools that fit a person's preferences and life circumstances rather than applying a single method to every situation.
Online sessions via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging provide flexibility for people balancing work, family, or mobility limitations. These options allow consistent access to therapeutic tools and skill practice from home or another convenient setting, helping clients integrate strategies into everyday life while maintaining continuity of care.
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Experience
5+ years
Licensed
New York
Languages
English, Spanish