About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Haines is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New York with 29 years of experience. She focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she works with people to set clear, practical goals for therapy.
Elizabeth keeps sessions simple and direct. She listens first, then helps clients identify small steps that make a difference.
Background and approach
Many people come for help with life transitions, grief, or tensions at home, and she offers straightforward strategies to manage those struggles. Her work blends client-centered care with tools from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused approaches. That means she helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and build short-term plans that fit daily life.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Elizabeth also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, intimacy-related worries, anger, and low self-esteem. She addresses practical issues like career stress, caregiver burnout, and blended family tensions with concrete steps and communication skills.
She often helps clients who feel isolated or stuck find small, manageable changes that lead to steadier mood and clearer priorities. The process starts with a few focused conversations and moves toward goals the client sets. Elizabeth aims to make therapy useful and doable for busy lives.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s perspective. The therapist provides empathy and supports clients to set their own goals, useful for concerns like relationship stress or low self-esteem.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses simple exercises and experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can reduce anxiety, mood problems, and stress reactions.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on strengths and small, achievable steps. It helps clients identify what is already working and build short-term plans to move toward clearer goals, useful for life transitions and practical problems.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each client to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions can shift over time as priorities change and progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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