About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Malchow is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who draws on seven years of clinical practice to help people manage anxiety and related concerns. She works in Wisconsin and uses a practical, respectful approach that focuses on each person’s needs. Her style is warm and reflective, and she aims to make sessions feel calm and down-to-earth.
Elizabeth uses evidence-informed methods to help people build coping skills. She often includes cognitive-behavioral tools to change unhelpful thought patterns and emotion-focused ideas to strengthen important relationships.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and simple creative activities are part of sessions when they fit a person’s goals. Her work covers stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and life transitions. She also helps with relationship strain, parenting stress, self-esteem, career challenges, and long-term conditions such as bipolar disorder and chronic illness.
Elizabeth pays attention to attachment concerns, communication problems, and issues that come up around separation or divorce. Sessions are tailored to what each person finds useful. That might mean learning short grounding exercises, practicing new communication steps, or trying a brief written or artistic task between meetings.
She explains ideas plainly and checks in often to make sure the pace and focus feel right. People who want practical tools and a collaborative therapist may find her approach helpful. Elizabeth emphasizes respect, curiosity, and steady support while people work through change and recovery.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people notice patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current feelings. It can be useful when anxiety or trust issues are connected to how someone relates to others.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It offers concrete exercises and homework that work well in online sessions for managing anxiety, depression, and stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Elizabeth will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she will adjust the plan as needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people follow nonverbal cues and try interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a better fit when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for quick skill practice, journaling prompts, or check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to continue consistent care from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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