About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Brennan is a Licensed Master Social Worker with eight years of clinical experience. She moved from San Diego to the Midwest to study social work and art, and later completed a master’s degree. Elizabeth draws on years in public mental health offering direct care, assessment, case management, and therapy.
She takes a calm, patient approach in sessions. Elizabeth aims to help people talk through anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, stress, and substance concerns.
Background and approach
She emphasizes creativity and personal strengths while guiding practical steps toward change. In sessions she helps people learn skills to manage strong emotions and daily stressors. She uses straightforward tools to address sleep, eating, anger, and work-related strain.
Elizabeth also supports people dealing with grief, caregiver stress, chronic pain, and the effects of trauma. Her practice includes attention to LGBTQ needs, adoption and foster care issues, neurodiversity, and intimacy or body-image concerns. She works with people facing co-occurring challenges such as ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, dissociation, or addictive behaviors and helps them prioritize what matters most.
Elizabeth blends client-centered listening with active strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, and skills-based approaches. She values collaboration and helps each person set clear, manageable goals. Outside of therapy she makes pottery, paints watercolors, gardens, and ferments kombucha and kimchi.
How Elizabeth Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Elizabeth often blends client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy when working online. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's pace, which helps someone feel understood and heard. Cognitive behavioral therapy uses practical exercises to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, sleep, and mood concerns.She tailors methods to each person's needs and sees choosing an approach as a collaborative step. Together the therapist and client will review goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. The process is gradual and focused on building useful skills while honoring each person's strengths and creativity.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different preferences. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills with visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, and flexible communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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