Bethany Merold(She/Her/Hers)

Bethany Merold is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Ohio. She works with adults with a wide range of clinical concerns. Bethany's clients often struggle with issues surrounding trauma and other experiences that negatively influence their identity, self-worth, and attachment style. She specializes in treating PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and neurodivergence including ADHD and adult autism since these issues often result in distortions in how one views themselves.

Bethany's approach to treatment is founded on the perspective that all thoughts, feelings, and behaviors serve a purpose for our continued functioning. When they are no longer necessary for functioning, they naturally resolve themselves. Therefore, to treat symptoms, Bethany uses therapies that heal the underlying issues that make them necessary to begin with. This approach provides permanent healing and removes the shame and struggle many clients feel with treatments that require them to fight against their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

To accomplish these goals, Bethany relies on Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). In IFS, Bethany guides clients to get to know the parts of themselves that try to protect them and help them function. She helps clients to heal any emotional burdens that may be causing these parts to serve their role in a dysfunctional way. EMDR assists and amplifies this process by using bilateral stimulation to activate the way our body naturally heals psychological issues and remove any barriers to healing.

A graduate of The Ohio State University and Ashland Theological Seminary, Bethany has enjoyed being a therapist for more than 7 years. She worked in various counseling settings prior to starting her own practice in 2023. Seeing the profound impacts IFS has had in her clients' lives renewed her passion for counseling, and amplifies her desire to help people heal every day.