About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Holden is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and to strengthen self-esteem. She speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel practical and focused on real life concerns.
She helps people set clear goals and build simple steps toward them. Sessions often focus on improving communication and developing coping skills. She works with issues like depression, parenting stress, career worries, addictions, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Elizabeth uses ways of working that center the person in the room. She listens for strengths and then helps clients try out new behaviors. Together they craft interventions that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Her approach also addresses family patterns and relationship dynamics. She supports people dealing with divorce, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, and family of origin issues. She is familiar with aging and geriatric concerns and neurodiversity topics such as autism and attachment differences.
Practical problems like hoarding, impulsivity, fertility struggles, and difficulties with communication are part of her caseload. She combines problem-focused tools with acceptance and mindfulness skills. The goal is to help people return to routines that feel workable and meaningful.
Elizabeth practices in Oregon and provides care in English. She encourages a collaborative process where clients define what progress looks like and she helps map the steps to get there.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Elizabeth often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try concrete behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns because it focuses on clear skills and small experiments.She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes listening, empathy, and building on a persons strengths. That approach helps clients feel heard and then choose practical steps that match their values.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to goals and preferences, adjusting techniques as needs evolve. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face when schedules allow. Phone sessions can fit a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions.
These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life. The mix of practical skills and regular check-ins aims to support steady progress over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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