Services
Clinical Social Work
Psychotherapy
Wisdom for Life's Journey
Bette will use a variety of strategies to help you learn how to effectively solve your problems and become the strong individual you desire to be. As a student of the techniques of brief therapy, cognitive therapy and Ericksonian hypnosis, Bette utilizes creative techniques to guide you toward the wisdom inside your most authentic and resilient Self.
Growth and Empowerment Groups
Bette’s groups are always focused on the development of skills for coping with life.
She offers women’s life issues groups that focus on strengthening and maintaining a centered Self in relationships and life situations. Bette’s stress management groups incorporate the mind/body/spirit connection as well as developing the psychic dimension of mind.
Bette and her husband Ray Amidon, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist offer a time limited group for strengthening relationships. The program is called “Recipes for a Delicious Relationship.”
Unique Therapy for Couples
Bette and her husband, Ray Amidon, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, offer conjoint therapy for couples. This unique and effective couple’s work allows the couple to develop safe connections as they experience a deeper working through of their issues. In some circumstances, the couple’s therapy may include individual sessions with either Bette or Ray for a period of time to be clinically determined.
In this unique setting, the couple is given an opportunity to observe two therapists using communication interactions that model appreciation and respect for individual differences and personal boundaries.
Strategies for Success as a Single Parent
Bette teaches strategies for helping you to achieve success as a single parent. In her counseling sessions and in her book, Soul Mothers’ Wisdom: Seven Insights for the Single Mother, Bette focuses on helping you believe that it is possible to manage even the most difficult circumstances with maturity, resilience and strength.
One of Bette’s most important tips is to believe that you are whole and that your single parent family is a whole family. Wholeness and success are your rights. You can believe in them and learn to make them your authentic reality. Bette will show you how.
Stress Management Through Intuitive Development
We all have a part of our mind that Bette refers to as the “psychic” Dimension.” This is the part of our mind that gives us our intuition and that can help us manage stress. Some people think that only “real psychics” have intuitive skill, but anyone can develop intuitive ability and can learn how to use it to feel better and to do better.
Bette’s teaches stress management through intuitive development by helping her students learn how to recognize and utilize the receptive “psychic” information that they receive. This Self-guidance can help you cope with stress and live a more peaceful life. , the couple’s therapy may include individual sessions with either Bette or Ray for a period of time to be clinically determined.
Intuitive Guidance Consultations
In addition to her clinical social work, Bette meets with individuals who wish guidance for their life’s journey from a strictly intuitive/psychic perspective. Bette emphasizes that her intuitive wisdom is not designed to tell people how to run their lives or to tell the future. She uses her intuition to offer a reflective, interactive and meaningful perspective for any client wishing this type of appointment.