About Bertha
Bertha Beltran is a licensed clinical social worker in Arizona with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression, and related concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make first steps feel manageable for people reaching out.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She creates a space where people can say what they mean and be heard without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical ways to notice feelings in the body, understand patterns, and try small changes that can make daily life easier. Bertha blends somatic work with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral tools. That means she pays attention to physical sensations, gently guides how people think about problems, and centers the conversation on each person’s goals.
She also draws on emotionally-focused and trauma-informed methods when the history calls for it. She supports people with a wide range of concerns, from parenting strain and career stress to grief, post-traumatic stress, eating and sleeping problems, and identity issues such as gender dysphoria. Bertha also helps with isolation, chronic illness or pain, and questions about life purpose.
People can expect a collaborative process. Bertha works with each person to set clear, realistic goals and to try practical steps between sessions. She values steady progress and adjusts the approach as needs change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed therapy focuses on the body and how sensations relate to emotions. Online sessions can include guided attention to breathing, posture, and simple grounding practices to help people notice and shift physical responses to stress or trauma.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what is said, and helps people clarify their goals and values during video or phone conversations.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works by identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying concrete experiments to change them. In online sessions this may look like setting small behavioral tasks, reviewing outcomes together, and practicing new ways of thinking between meetings.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That discussion guides whether more somatic work, more CBT, or a blend is used, and it is shaped over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions simplify access, and live chat or text messaging can help with check-ins or brief coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work when travel or mobility is an issue.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English, Spanish