About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Fraser is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses straightforward talk and practical steps to help clients feel steadier and more able to cope. Her style aims to meet people where they are and build on their existing strengths.
She draws on an integrative approach that blends several methods rather than relying on a single technique. That allows her to tailor sessions to the issue at hand, whether it is grief, changes at work, or trouble sleeping.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear goals and small, achievable changes. Elizabeth has eight years of practice across different settings. She has worked in outpatient specialty clinics, crisis intervention, inpatient programs, and federal programs.
That variety informs a flexible way of working with common problems such as depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, and caregiver fatigue. Her toolkit includes client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, psychodynamic thinking, and solution-focused techniques. She also draws on trauma-focused methods when appropriate.
Conversations may include skills practice, reflection on patterns, and planning for concrete next steps. Elizabeth offers services in English and Spanish from Virginia. She supports people dealing with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, LGBT issues, body image, immigration-related stress, social anxiety, and seasonal mood shifts.
The focus is on usable skills and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How Elizabeth’s approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's priorities. It helps people clarify what matters to them and guides the conversation toward their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, mood, and sleep concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on how well methods fit the client's needs and preferences. That collaborative process helps ensure sessions feel relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is good for a full conversation and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options provide flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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