About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Elliott-Staggs is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 30 years of clinical experience. She is licensed in California and Texas and provides care to people dealing with anxiety and other life challenges. She encourages a straightforward, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about what matters most to them.
Her approach centers on building trust and listening closely to each person's story. She helps people name patterns that get in the way and works with them to try different ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and honest conversation rather than jargon. She has long experience helping people affected by addictions, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and grief. She also supports those managing depression, stress, eating concerns, and parenting pressures.
Additional areas include divorce and separation, infidelity, postpartum depression, and obsessive-compulsive concerns. Elizabeth pays attention to cultural background and identity, including LGBT issues and multicultural concerns. She helps clients explore life purpose, forgiveness, and building healthier self-regard.
Her style is steady and direct, with an emphasis on small, achievable changes. People who prefer a calm, practical therapist often find her helpful. She guides conversations so people can make decisions they feel clearer about.
If you want focused, experienced support for anxiety or related concerns, she offers a welcoming place to begin.
How evidence-based approaches fit into online therapy
Elizabeth uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear goals and practical skills. One common approach she uses helps people identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that feed anxiety and depression. That approach teaches specific coping skills and ways to shift unhelpful thoughts.Another approach she applies focuses on processing trauma and easing intense emotional reactions. This method helps people make sense of difficult memories, reduce their hold on daily life, and build steadier ways of managing stress. Both approaches aim to make everyday living feel more manageable and to reduce distressing symptoms over time.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She works collaboratively to understand your needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts methods as progress unfolds. If one way isn't helping enough, she discusses alternatives and practical next steps together.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how you connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful, phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth situations, and live chat or text-based messaging support ongoing check-ins and written reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to work therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas
- Languages
- English
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