Bethany Sparkman, LPC
Tennessee · 5 years in practice
Bethany Sparkman is a licensed professional counselor in Tennessee who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, anger, and depression.
License and registration
- LPC, Tennessee
- 6918 · expires February 2028
- NPI
- 1629839329 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Bethany
Bethany Sparkman is a licensed professional counselor in Tennessee who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, anger, and depression. She speaks plain and direct, and she treats each person as the expert on their own life. Bethany focuses on supporting strengths and building practical skills to make small changes that add up over time.
She uses a mix of talk-based approaches and structured techniques. That can include cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and client-centered work to make space for what matters to each person.
Background and approach
Bethany also draws on ACT, DBT, and EMDR approaches when they fit the client’s goals. With five years of clinical experience, Bethany guides people through relationship strain, grief, intimacy concerns, and parenting stress. She also helps with career stress, ADHD, body image, and coping with chronic illness.
Her background includes work with issues like codependency, attachment and abandonment concerns, and blended family challenges. Sessions aim to be practical and collaborative. Bethany helps clients set clear, manageable goals and practices skills between sessions.
She encourages pacing the work to match what a person can handle at the time. People can expect straightforward feedback, active listening, and step-by-step tools for calming anxiety, managing anger, or processing difficult experiences. Her approach balances emotional support with hands-on strategies to move forward.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Bethany lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Bethany names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Bethany’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on values and small committed actions. It helps people move toward a life they value even while uncomfortable feelings remain present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and depression. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to process distressing memories and reduce their hold on day-to-day functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Together they will try methods that fit the person's needs and adjust as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and paced to the individual's comfort.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits a quick check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work between meetings.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Bethany address?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, and related concerns such as grief, intimacy issues, and parenting strain.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and practical, combining client-centered listening with skill-based methods like CBT and DBT to address thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Bethany has five years of professional work experience supporting people through a range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LPC, licensed in Tennessee and provides services from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the US work with her?
She is not currently working with international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on client preference.
How do subscriptions, cost, and getting started work?
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