About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Paul is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma. She works with adults, young adults, and couples who feel stuck in repeating patterns or overwhelmed by relationship strain. Her style is direct and warm, and she aims to create a space where clients can be heard without judgment.
She uses practical, evidence-based approaches alongside relational work to tailor each plan.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on understanding what keeps problems repeating and building skills to respond differently. Elizabeth also pays attention to how the body stores stress and how attachment history shapes current relationships. Clients commonly bring concerns about family problems, divorce and separation, caregiving stress, issues around adoption or blended families, and communication troubles.
She also supports people navigating sexual identity and nontraditional relationship structures, as well as those managing symptoms of dissociation or the effects of disaster and first responder stress. Therapy sessions emphasize steady, usable tools - emotion regulation, boundary-setting, and practical communication strategies. Conversations are conversational and grounded, not filled with jargon.
Elizabeth helps clients try small, concrete changes between sessions and notice what shifts as a result. With five years of clinical experience and credentials as MA LICSW and NY LCSW, she brings a blend of clinical knowledge and everyday language. Sessions are offered in English and scheduled to fit each person’s needs.
Evidence-based approaches via online care
Elizabeth often blends trauma-focused and attachment-informed work with body-centered awareness. Trauma-focused methods help people process distressing memories and reduce symptoms that come from past events, which can ease anxiety and intrusive reactions. Attachment-informed work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds influence current trust and communication.Somatic awareness addresses how stress and emotion show up in the body and teaches simple grounding and regulation skills. These techniques can help people notice tension, slow down physical arousal, and use body-based strategies during moments of anxiety or dissociation.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick and adapt methods that match their goals, pace, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what feels workable for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video allows in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when a shorter, more flexible touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make therapy easier to fit into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York, Massachusetts, Maine
- Languages
- English
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