About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Loring is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, addiction concerns, and trauma. She works from a practical, person-centered stance and focuses on small, doable steps that lead to real change. She has nine years of professional experience in social work practice in Kentucky.
Over that time she has supported people dealing with depression and mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and the effects of sexual assault and abuse.
Background and approach
She also addresses concerns related to LGBT issues, first responder stress, and family of origin wounds. Elizabeth pays attention to the strengths each person brings. In sessions she listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people set concrete goals they can try between meetings.
The focus is on what will help right now - coping tools, clearer thinking, and steadier routines. She is familiar with issues connected to addiction, including drug and alcohol concerns, and with relationship structures such as polyamory and kink culture. She works with people who are coping after disasters and those facing guilt, shame, or self-harm thoughts.
Therapy with Elizabeth is collaborative. She helps clients find approaches that match their needs and then supports them as they practice new skills and make changes over time.
Evidence-based approaches and online support
Elizabeth uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and emotional processing. One common approach emphasizes skill building for anxiety and mood regulation - learning breathing and grounding tools, breaking problems into smaller steps, and testing new behaviors to reduce worry and rumination. This kind of work is useful for stress, mild to moderate anxiety, and daily coping.Another approach centers on trauma-informed processing, which helps people make sense of painful events and reduce their impact on daily life. This involves careful pacing, stabilizing skills, and gradual work on distressing memories or triggers, suited for post-traumatic stress and survivors of sexual assault or abuse.
Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Elizabeth collaborates with each person to choose strategies that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods as progress and preferences become clear.
Online sessions offer flexibility and multiple ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing writing-based work. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain continuity between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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