About Elizabeth
Elizabeth O'Malley is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for anxiety and related stress. She uses straightforward conversation and collaborative planning to help people reduce worry and handle daily pressures. Elizabeth aims to make sessions feel calm and approachable so parents and individuals can talk about what matters most.
With ten years of clinical experience in California, she has worked with people facing relationship strain, family conflict, parenting challenges, mood disorders, and trauma.
Background and approach
She also helps with sleep problems, anger, addictions, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Her background includes support for people navigating postpartum depression, panic attacks, ADHD concerns, and grief. Her style centers on listening first and then building steps that fit real life.
She draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s goals, and uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach coping skills. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are added when they match a person's needs. In sessions she helps clients break problems into manageable pieces, practice skills between meetings, and test new ways of handling stress.
Parents receive direct support for parenting challenges, including working with children who have moderate to severe mental health needs. Elizabeth emphasizes collaboration and practical plans that people can use outside of therapy. People can expect clear goals, concrete skill-building, and steady support while they work toward calmer days and better routines.
Approaches that inform online work
Elizabeth often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered techniques in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Client-centered work emphasizes listening, understanding each person's goals, and shaping sessions around what the client finds most important.She may also bring in dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation or intense reactions are a concern; DBT offers practical strategies for managing strong feelings and improving interpersonal effectiveness. These approaches are chosen to match the issues someone brings and to teach skills that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and adjust the plan over time. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility and many practical benefits. Video calls make it possible to have a face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions or live chat can be easier when bandwidth or scheduling is limited. Text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing accountability between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while working on anxiety, stress, relationships, and parenting concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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