About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Coutts is a Pennsylvania licensed counselor (LPC) with 34 years of experience helping people navigate difficult moments. She focuses on practical support for anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and changes that feel overwhelming. Elizabeth aims to meet each person with respect, sensitivity, and calm attention.
She uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to a person. Sessions often include talking through immediate problems, learning new coping skills, and setting small, doable steps.
Background and approach
Her approach adapts to each person rather than following one fixed method. Elizabeth draws from multiple proven therapies to shape sessions. She often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts.
She also relies on client-centered listening to make room for each person’s experience. People come to her for many concerns such as grief, stress, addictions, parenting strain, chronic illness, and career uncertainty. She also works with attachment issues, body image, and challenges tied to aging or caregiving.
Her long practice gives her experience across a wide range of life problems. In early meetings she helps set clear, practical goals and checks in about what’s working. Therapy is negotiated together so plans can change as needs shift.
That makes the work feel realistic and manageable for busy or worried people. Sessions are offered in English and take place through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Elizabeth supports people who want steady, compassionate help while they find clearer footing.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and major life changes by focusing on small, meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete tools to challenge patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening without judgment and prioritizes the person’s own goals and pace.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaboration means plans can shift if something isn’t helping, and progress is measured in practical terms people notice day to day.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video lets for fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to get regular help from a licensed professional without extra travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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