About Elizabeth
Elizabeth "Liz" McDowell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of clinical experience. She works with people coping with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, trauma, and significant life changes. Liz blends practical strategies with steady, down-to-earth support so clients can make changes that fit their lives.
Her background includes work in both inpatient and outpatient settings, offering assessment, therapy, and ongoing support. She has long experience helping people manage crisis moments, painful losses, and difficult transitions.
Background and approach
That experience shapes a calm, problem-solving approach in sessions. Liz uses clear, skills-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior ideas to help people spot unhelpful patterns and try new options. She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ways of working to strengthen relationships and rebuild trust where it has been damaged.
Sessions focus on small, doable steps and real-life practice. People meet her to address a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety and mood such as relationship and communication problems, parenting stress, addiction-related issues, and compassion fatigue. She also supports clients dealing with chronic illness, body-image struggles, and identity-related challenges including LGBT matters.
Therapy with Liz tends to be collaborative and paced to the individual. She listens for what matters most, then helps set achievable goals and builds toward them week by week. The tone is practical, steady, and respectful of each person’s unique story.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and practice committed action toward those values. It focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and on taking small meaningful steps even when things feel hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thinking, feeling, and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful habits. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, and it helps people build safer, more trusting bonds.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your concerns, try out methods that match your goals, and adjust as needed. That way the work stays focused on what you want to change and how you prefer to work, whether that means practicing skills, talking through hurt, or focusing on values and actions.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions let people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, in-between skill practice, or ongoing written support during the week. Together these options give flexibility so therapy can fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Utah, Maine, Arizona, California
- Languages
- English
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