Beverly Crippen, LCSW

Beverly Crippen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 30 years in practice. She has worked in adoption and foster care, addiction recovery, mental health hospital outpatient programs, faith-based family service clinics, and private practice. Beverly draws on decades of hands-on experience to guide people through common life stressors.

She helps people who face depression, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and career or education crossroads. She also supports those coping with past trauma, emotional abuse, and issues connected to adoption and foster care. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings.

Beverly uses a client-centered style that centers the person in the work. She creates an environment of respect and encouragement so people can find their own answers and move forward at their own pace.

She also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to identify thinking patterns and try new behaviors. Other tools she may use include mindfulness, inner child work, stress management, and positive psychology depending on each person’s needs.

Her approach is collaborative and flexible. Beverly tailors interventions to fit what each person wants to achieve and how they prefer to work. She emphasizes small, achievable changes that add up over time.

People who are ready to address life’s hard parts and build a more satisfying everyday life may find her style helpful. Beverly offers support that balances practical skills with encouragement and emotional understanding.

How Beverly’s Approaches Work Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, encouraging space where the person leads the work. The therapist listens, reflects, and supports people as they identify their own goals and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and offers specific strategies to shift them. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management because it gives clear skills to practice.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Beverly will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then decide together which methods to try. That collaborative planning can change over time as priorities shift and progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep face-to-face conversation while saving travel time. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get support between sessions or to choose a mode that feels easier for sharing. These options help fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules and make it simpler to use the tools learned in session in everyday life.