About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Papa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety and related concerns while aiming to make therapy approachable and practical. She speaks English and offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
She creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk through what is worrying them. Elizabeth emphasizes a collaborative relationship and helps clients set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
She favors straightforward conversations and practical steps that fit everyday life. Her work often addresses stress, depression, eating and body-image concerns, relationship strain, grief, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem. She also supports people processing trauma and abuse and assists parents with parenting-related stress.
Sessions are adapted to each person's needs rather than following a single formula. Elizabeth draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. She combines cognitive-behavioral ideas with psychodynamic reflection and mindfulness practices.
She also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques when they match a client's goals. People meet with her for short-term problem solving and for longer-term personal growth. She helps clients build coping skills, notice patterns that cause pain, and experiment with new ways of relating to themselves and others.
The approach is collaborative and paced to the client's readiness.
Evidence-based techniques and online sessions
Elizabeth blends cognitive-behavioral approaches with psychodynamic ideas and mindfulness practices. Cognitive-behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. Psychodynamic work looks at patterns from past relationships that repeat today and helps people notice how those patterns affect current feelings and choices. Mindfulness practices teach simple ways to notice thoughts and sensations so anxiety feels less overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily struggles, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video helps maintain a face-to-face feel for deeper conversations, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work, family time, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Anger management
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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