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Beth Newman, LMFT, ATR-BC

I specialize in Grief and Transgender

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Vegan Therapist in Vermont

To be a compassionate companion in the process of healing is an honor I hold as sacred. Wherever you may find yourself on your journey, I will witness, listen, ask deep questions, and offer support without judgement. My goal is to provide a safe space that allows you to remember and know who you are. I will support you to learn to understand your lived and embodied experience with a spacious sense of connectedness. Combining expressive and creative techniques with mindfulness-based practices, we will work together towards integration and wholeness based on your chosen goals.

For over 30 years I have grown and learned from those who are exploring identity issues, in transition, are living with depression or anxiety, grieving, at end of life, living with a life limiting illness, grappling with issues of aging and loss, and those seeking to deepen a connection to curiosity, joy, peace, and ease.
I humbly acknowledge the unceded lands of the Abenaki peoples across Vermont on which I live, work and play. I am committed to continued growth and education on how I can better respect, learn from and advocate for all Indigenous peoples. I will continuously work towards anti-racism and decolonizing my practices.

Finances

Fees

Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible

Pay by Cash, Check, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Paypal, Venmo, Visa

If you see your insurance listed, please ask me to verify coverage when you 

Insurance

  • BlueCross and BlueShield
  • CDCHP
  • Cigna and Evernorth
  • Green Mountain Care
  • Medicaid
  • UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH

Qualifications

  • Certificate from College of Notre Dame
  • Board Certified Art Therapist / 1996
  • Attended College of Notre Dame, Graduated 1995

Specialties and Expertise

Top Specialties

  • Grief
  • Transgender
  • Expertise
  • Behavioral Issues
  • Bisexual
  • Chronic Illness
  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • Elderly Persons Disorders
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Grief, loss
  • Identity issues, transitions, chronic illness
  • Lesbian
  • LGBTQ+
  • Life Transitions
  • Mood Disorders
  • Personality Disorders
  • Racial Identity
  • Relationship Issues
  • Self Esteem
  • Spirituality
  • Stress
  • Trauma and PTSD
  • Women’s Issues

Communities

  • Bisexual Allied,
  • Body Positivity,
  • Cancer,
  • Gay Allied,
  • HIV / AIDS Allied,
  • Intersex Allied,
  • Lesbian Allied,
  • Non-Binary Allied,
  • Queer Allied,
  • Racial Justice Allied,
  • Transgender Allied

Treatment Approach

Types of Therapy

  • Art Therapy

It may look like a craft class, but art therapy is a serious technique that uses the creative process to help improve the mental health of clients. Art therapy can be used on children and adults to treat a wide range of emotional issues, including anxiety, depression, family and relationship problems, abuse and domestic violence, and trauma and loss.

Commonly found in hospitals and community centers, art therapy programs are based on the belief that the creative process is healing and life-enhancing. As they paint or draw, a skilled therapist can use the client’s works of art and their approach to the process as springboards to help them gain personal insight, improve their judgment, cope with stress, and work through traumatic experiences.

  • Compassion Focused

Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) may assist individuals who struggle with mood disorders, anxiety, or feelings of shame and self-criticism, often stemming from early experiences of abuse or neglect. Through exercises like role-playing, visualization, meditation, and activities that promote gratitude for everyday life, CFT teaches clients about the mind-body connection and guides them in practicing awareness of their thoughts and bodily sensations. This helps clients cultivate self-compassion and compassion for others, which can help regulate their emotions and foster a sense of safety, self-acceptance, and comfort.

  • Emotionally Focused

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an approach to therapy that helps clients identify their emotions, learn to explore and experience them, to understand them and then to manage them. Emotionally Focused Therapy embraces the idea that emotions can be changed, first by arriving at or ‘living’ the maladaptive emotion (e.g. loss, fear or shame) in session, and then learning to transform it. Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples seeks to break the negative emotion cycles within relationships, emphasizing the importance of the attachment bond between couples, and how nurturing of the attachment bonds and an empathetic understanding of each others emotions can break the cycles.

  • Existential

Existential psychotherapy is based on the philosophical belief that human beings are alone in the world, and that this aloneness can only be overcome by creating one’s own meaning, and exercising one’s freedom to choose. The existential therapist encourages clients to face life’s anxieties head on and to start making their own decisions. The therapist will emphasize that, along with having the freedom to carve out meaning, comes the need to take full responsibility for the consequences of one’s decisions. Therapy sessions focus on the client’s present and future rather than their past.

  • Experiential Therapy
  • Expressive Arts
  • Humanistic
  • Integrative
  • Interpersonal
  • Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
  • Multicultural
  • Psychodynamic
  • Relational
  • Somatic
  • Transpersonal

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