About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Doherty is a counsellor with 15 years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are anxious, stressed or struggling with major life changes. She also helps with low mood, sleep difficulties, confidence and career worries.
Conversations are straightforward and aimed at making each session useful from the first meeting. She uses a gentle, client-centred approach that keeps the person's goals at the heart of the work.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and move at a pace they find manageable. Practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy are offered to help manage anxious thoughts and unhelpful patterns. Elizabeth also draws on existential ideas to look at meaning, choice and values when people feel stuck.
Mindfulness techniques are introduced to help with stress, sleep and staying present. Solution-focused methods are used to build on strengths and find concrete next steps between sessions. Her background includes supported work across a range of common concerns, including trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She has worked with people facing career transitions, bereavement, and life changes that feel overwhelming. Sessions are conversational and practical. The aim is to help people notice small shifts that add up to clearer thinking and steadier coping.
Elizabeth encourages questions and keeps plans simple so clients know what to try between appointments.
Approaches that suit online therapy and everyday life
Elizabeth blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness in online sessions. Client-centred therapy means the conversation follows each person's priorities and values, helping them make choices that matter. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on spotting and testing unhelpful thoughts and trying simple behavioural experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness offers short practices to help with stress, sleep and staying focused in the moment.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The counsellor will collaborate with clients to decide which approaches fit their goals and preferences. That might mean trying a few techniques and keeping what helps most, or combining methods for different problems like insomnia and worry.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a more traditional session feel, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for brief check-ins or when daily journalling and short prompts help progress. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping sessions practical and goal-focused.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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