About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Huntoon is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with four decades of psychotherapy experience. She offers a calm, direct presence to people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. Her approach aims to make difficult problems easier to talk about and to find manageable next steps.
She uses client-centered work that focuses on what matters to the person in the room. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps her guide people through changing unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
Emotionally-Focused Therapy and mindfulness techniques are used to help with strong feelings and improving emotional awareness. Her practice includes support for anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship concerns. She also helps with issues such as addiction, sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Additional focus areas include fertility and adoption concerns, immigration adjustment, caregiver stress, and end-of-life planning. Elizabeth brings particular experience in working with aging and geriatric issues and hospice or end-of-life counseling. She has also supported people facing multicultural adjustments and the stresses of caregiving.
Her long career in Massachusetts includes work with clients dealing with workplace challenges and cultural adaptation. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She practices from Massachusetts and carries the LICSW credential.
To begin, people use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Elizabeth combines client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people clarify goals and practice new skills. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's concerns and priorities, letting the conversation shape the work rather than a fixed agenda. This helps when the main goal is to feel heard and understood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and change thinking and behavior patterns that keep anxiety or depression active. CBT often involves short exercises and homework that fit well into video or phone sessions and help people track progress between appointments. Emotionally-Focused techniques are also part of her work to help name and process strong feelings when those come up.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust over time. That way the care can shift as needs change and as people notice what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and working through emotional material, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can serve as brief check-ins, coaching, or moments of support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work steadily over time.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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