About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bourne is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She offers calm, practical support for everyday struggles and major life shifts. Her style is down-to-earth and focused on what feels doable for each person.
She has about 20 years of experience in mental health. That work includes community, inpatient, outpatient, and hospital settings. Elizabeth has supported people living with depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, ADHD, grief, and serious medical conditions.
Background and approach
Elizabeth uses a mix of approaches rather than a single method. She draws from cognitive and behavioral tools, mindfulness, acceptance-based ideas, and processing strategies that address traumatic memories. The goal is to find methods that fit each person's needs and life situation.
In sessions she listens without judgment and helps clients sort through difficult decisions and painful feelings. She also helps people build skills to manage anger, improve communication, and cope with major life changes or losses. Practical skills and small, steady steps are common parts of her work.
She also supports concerns related to identity and relationships, including LGBT issues, attachment and abandonment worries, body image, fertility and caregiver stress. Elizabeth uses her clinical experience to tailor a plan that reflects each person's goals and pace.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small, committed steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when anxiety or avoidance gets in the way of everyday life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable parts.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method used to process distressing memories and reduce their hold on daily life; it can be helpful for people with trauma-related symptoms.
Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Elizabeth works together with each person to identify which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adapts the plan over time and checks in about what is working and what should change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and chat or text can be used for brief updates or ongoing support between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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