About Elizabeth
Elizabeth McKinley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 27 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety, depression, trauma and family strain. She helps people navigate big life changes and the day-to-day stress that wears them down.
Her practice centers on clear, practical conversations. She uses straightforward tools to reduce worry and improve coping. Sessions emphasize building self-respect, increasing resilience, and finding clearer direction in life.
Elizabeth draws on several approaches to fit each person's needs.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Mindfulness practices are offered to help manage stress and ground attention in the present. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a calm space where a person’s values and goals guide work together.
For people dealing with relationship strain, elements of the Gottman Method inform communication and problem-solving skills. Her background includes long experience with mood disorders, trauma and family-related concerns such as parenting stress, blended family issues, and caregiving burdens. She also supports people facing grief, abandonment issues, and recovery after domestic violence.
Elizabeth works with adults who want practical, steady support while they learn new ways to cope. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, helping people take small, useful steps toward feeling better.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. The therapist listens closely and helps people name what matters to them, then follows their lead to set practical steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings and actions in a simple way. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking and then practice different behaviors to reduce anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether to emphasize CBT techniques, mindfulness practices, relationship skills, or a client-led focus, and they adjust the plan as work progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face from their chosen location. Phone sessions can be a lighter option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework, or ongoing emotional support between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily rhythms.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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