Betty Acierno, LCSW
Licensed in Florida · 11 years in practice
Betty Acierno helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck.
License and registration
- LCSW, Florida
- SW12905 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1265075105 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 11
- Languages
- English
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About Betty
Betty Acierno helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. She uses a calm, respectful style to make it easier to talk about hard things. Betty is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and she brings 11 years of experience to conversations about grief, addiction, depression, and relationship stress.
She favors a relaxed approach that centers on the relationship between therapist and client. Sessions often focus on practical steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Betty draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral work to spot unhelpful thinking and from solution-focused methods to set clear, achievable goals. Mindfulness and narrative work appear in her practice too. Mindfulness helps slow a racing mind and ground attention.
Narrative therapy helps people separate their identity from painful stories and try new ways of describing themselves. Her background includes work in medical and mental health settings and time supporting people at hospice. That experience shaped her interest in grief, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and end-of-life concerns.
She also focuses on codependency, empowerment, and issues tied to family of origin. Betty works with a wide range of life challenges, including addiction, trauma and abuse, body image, and coping with life changes. She keeps language plain and sessions practical, aiming to help people make decisions that fit their values and daily life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Betty lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Betty names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space so people can name what matters and make choices that match their values. It helps with stress, relationship questions, and self-esteem by keeping the person’s priorities central.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and looks for patterns that keep people stuck. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and habit changes because it includes concrete exercises and experiments to try between sessions.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It often helps when people feel overwhelmed, are coping with chronic illness, or notice persistent worry.
Betty will work with clients to figure out which of these approaches fits best. She treats that choice as a collaboration, adapting methods to a person’s goals, preferences, and life demands rather than following a rigid plan.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief ongoing contact. These options help people keep consistency and make progress without extra travel time.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Betty commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, trauma and related issues like codependency and caregiver stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is laid back and relationship-focused, using clear, practical steps and a collaborative tone in sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 11 years of experience in medical and mental health settings, including work supporting people in hospice care.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Florida and practices out of that state.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How does payment and cost work?
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?
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