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Beverly Hodsden

Beverly Hodsden

New Jersey

Experienced LPC focused on practical rest strategies

  • 38 years' experience
  • English
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Credentials
LPC
License
LPC, New Jersey · 37PC00054800
NPI
1790849578
Based in
New Jersey
  • Client-centered care
  • CBT based tools
  • Sleep and rest focus

About Beverly

Beverly Hodsden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with 38 years of clinical experience. She emphasizes a client-centered approach and helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. Beverly also addresses concerns around relationships, grief, eating and sleeping, and self-esteem using straightforward, practical guidance.

Her work focuses on helping individuals make small, useful changes that fit everyday life. Sessions concentrate on building better communication, healthier routines, and clearer coping strategies. Beverly uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and motivational interviewing to help people set and meet realistic goals.

She brings experience with attachment issues, mood disorders, ADHD, and multicultural concerns. That background informs how she talks about triggers, patterns, and ways to restore balance after difficult events. Beverly pays attention to how life transitions, career strain, and compassion fatigue can affect sleep and daily functioning.

Beverly prefers to collaborate with each person to find what works for them. She helps people identify habits that interfere with rest and then tests straightforward adjustments. The aim is to create predictable, manageable steps toward better sleep, mood, and daily energy.

Her practice uses a person-focused style that blends solution-focused techniques and trauma-informed care. She encourages clients to try small experiments between sessions and to build lasting skills for handling setbacks. Over nearly four decades, Beverly has kept the emphasis on practical strategies and steady support.

How Beverly’s Approaches Translate to Online Care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s lead. Beverly uses this approach to help people feel heard and to identify what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and tests simple changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety, low mood, and sleep disruption. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and is useful for addictions, lifestyle shifts, or building new habits.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Beverly will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they clarify priorities, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what is helpful in daily life.

Confirm the specific session formats available before booking as options are not listed in the original biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people practice new sleep routines and behavior changes in their normal environment, which can make small experiments more realistic and easier to maintain.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseDepression

Also works with

LGBTFamily conflictsGriefEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

Attachment issuesBody imageCodependencyCommunication problemsControl issuesDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)Drug and alcohol addictionFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameLife purposeMidlife crisisMood disordersMulticultural concernsPanic disorder and panic attacksPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSmoking / vaping cessationSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Motivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family SystemsSystemic Therapy

Experience

38+ years

Credentials

New Jersey

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Beverly address?

Beverly works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, relationship problems, grief, eating and sleeping concerns, and self-esteem difficulties.

What is her general therapy style?

Her style is client-centered and practical, combining solution-focused conversations with cognitive behavioral techniques to set realistic, testable goals.

How many years has she practiced?

She has 38 years of clinical experience working with varied mood, attachment, and life transition issues.

What credentials and region are listed?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in New Jersey.

Which languages are supported?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the United States work with her?

International clients are not currently accepted.

How are costs handled?

Costs vary with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin?

Click the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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