Professional counseling for personal healing and growth

I love seeing women and girls, ages 14 and over. For a meaningful and productive therapy experience, it’s all about finding a real connection built on safety, respect, and trust. That sense of connection and safety provides the foundation upon which you can pursue personal growth and healing.  

Photo of smiling, bespectacled counselor Beth Bates, sunset at the Black Canyon

  • Wife to Dan, mom of Jack and Grace; founder of Black Canyon Mental Health LLC (BCMH)

    Hello! I’m a counselor to fulfill a lifelong sense of compassion for others who are hurting. I’m grateful for years of varied counseling experience and for a surprise career detour as a wordsmith.

    I thank God for persistent waves a grace carrying me through pain and joy, missteps and smart choices, grief and healing, deconstruction and reconstruction—all of which shape and fuel me as a counselor.

  • Human pain and passages

    I see women and girls, ages 14 to 104, to address depression, self-worth, identity and meaning, trauma, grief, ambiguous loss, relationship issues, and life transitions. I take an integrated approach, using CBT, SFBT, PCT, and some DBT, depending on the person, their treatment goals, and rhythms of the session.

  • Purdue University, BA, Psychology

    Denver Seminary, MA, Counseling

    Additional coursework and continuing ed. from the University of Colorado at Denver, the American Counseling Association, Relias, and the Solution-Focused Therapy Institute

    I also have an MFA in creative writing, but that’s another story!