About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Munson is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety along with stress, depression, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem concerns. Elizabeth strives to create a calm, welcoming atmosphere where people can talk openly about what’s worrying them.
She uses common, evidence-based techniques such as cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance and commitment methods to help people recognize unhelpful patterns and try practical changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with simple tools to manage panic, social fear, and low mood. Her background includes work in home and community-based settings, which gave her experience helping people with a wide range of challenges. That includes panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, postpartum difficulties, agitation around separation or loss, and problems with impulsivity or isolation.
Elizabeth works with everyday relationship strains like communication problems and the fallout of divorce or separation. She also supports people grappling with guilt, shame, and mood disorders that limit daily functioning. Her style is empathetic, steady, and non-judgmental.
In sessions she focuses on practical skills people can use between meetings. That can mean breaking down anxious thoughts, practicing small behavior changes, and testing new ways of handling social situations. Her aim is to help people gain clearer choices and feel more capable in daily life.
How practical therapy methods work online
Elizabeth often uses cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance and commitment approaches. Cognitive behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and panic. Acceptance and commitment approaches help people accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that match their values, which can ease rumination and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you will track what helps and adjust the plan over time so techniques feel useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide options that fit busy lives. Video calls let you use visual cues for role-play and coaching, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a break, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports short, ongoing contact between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, childcare, or travel schedules and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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