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Betsy Nettleton is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with over twenty years of experience. She works online and in person with people who feel persistently off, people carrying something heavy that doesn't lift or something painful that understanding alone hasn't quite reached. Her work suits people who sense that something in their inner life resists explanation and who would like to look at it more closely.
Betsy's work slows things down. She doesn't simply look at patterns from the past. She pays close attention to what's happening as it happens, in life and in sessions. She notices those moments you lose the thread mid-sentence, the unease you can't explain away after a seemingly ordinary conversation, the patterns that keeps showing up in relationships despite best efforts to change it. She helps people sit with their most difficult feelings: dread, shame, rage, confusion.
Over time, patterns that have been hard to name become visible. That visibility changes not just how clients feel and react, but also how they relate to others. Symptoms may ease, but what tends to shift more fundamentally is how people experience themselves in ordinary moments: in conversations, in relationships, in the choices they make without quite realizing they're making them.
Years of Experience: 20 years
Anxiety - Coping with excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; intense discomfort in social settings; sudden and intense feelings of panic; ruminative or obsessional thoughts
Attachment issues - Helping understand how early relational connections impact ways of connecting in the present, sorting through how and why relationships feel safe or more challenging
Depression - Providing support and promoting healing of hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life
Life transitions - Coping with difficult or impactful life changes, such as moving to a new area, relationship transitions, child rearing, or career changes
Relationship issues - Understanding one’s wants and needs in relationships (past and present); exploring patterns of interaction, making sense of important connections within the therapy relationship
Sensitivity - Developing an understanding of one’s sensitivity, including exploring what evokes intense emotional reactions; practicing self-compassion; working to make sense of reactivity
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I am in-network for Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO. This means I am in-network for all state Blue Cross Blue Shield plans if they are PPO plans.
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