About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 13 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She creates a calm, respectful space where clients can say what matters and start to untangle hard feelings. Her style is straightforward and caring, geared toward practical steps that fit everyday life.
She uses tools drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking patterns and from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build meaningful action.
Background and approach
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps when relationship patterns leave people stuck, and client-centered work keeps the client's priorities in focus. Sessions usually mix talk, reflection, and simple exercises to try between meetings. Elizabeth pays attention to problems like sleep disruption, anger, low self-esteem, and the stress that comes from parenting or caregiving.
She also supports people dealing with ADHD challenges, attachment concerns, abandonment issues, and the strain of blended family dynamics. Many clients come for help with major life transitions, career strain, or recovery after abuse or disaster. Her work emphasizes collaboration.
She helps people set clear goals, track small changes, and adapt strategies when something isn't working. Progress is often gradual, with steady steps that build confidence and coping skills. Based in Pennsylvania, Elizabeth offers a practical approach rather than quick fixes.
She focuses on what people can do now to feel a little better and to move toward longer term change. The aim is livable tools and clearer direction for the weeks and months ahead.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice inner experiences without getting stuck and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and making forward steps during life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. That approach often helps with anxiety, sleep issues, low mood, and problem-solving at work or home.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at how patterns of interaction and emotion affect relationships. It helps people understand and change the ways they connect with partners or close others when those patterns cause distance or conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Elizabeth will talk with each person about goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust methods based on what feels most useful. The process is collaborative and paced to individual needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give options that fit different schedules and needs. Video calls let people work face-to-face from another location, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days, and live chat or text can be useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These formats make it easier to keep therapy going around work, caregiving, and travel.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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