About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Phelan is a licensed professional counselor with decades of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks plainly and listens closely to what worries clients most. Her approach is practical and steady, aimed at small changes that add up over time.
She has worked in schools and independent practice, so she understands how family life, parenting, and school pressures can affect mental health. Elizabeth often helps people who are navigating relationship problems, grief, or major life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder, as well as addiction and trauma recovery. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs. Elizabeth works with clients to set goals and build simple, workable plans.
She focuses on clear skills for managing anxiety, anger, and everyday stress, plus communication strategies for improving connections with others. Elizabeth brings 31 years of experience to her clinical work and adapts methods to fit different situations. She has helped young people, adults, and those coping with career or identity concerns, including LGBT and multicultural issues.
Her background includes supporting people through adoption, immigration-related stress, and parenting challenges. Her style is respectful and compassionate. Elizabeth emphasizes practical steps, steady support, and collaboration so clients can move toward better day-to-day functioning and more satisfying relationships.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online therapy
Elizabeth uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and real-life change. One common approach emphasizes teaching coping strategies for anxiety and panic, such as breathing techniques, gradual exposure to fears, and step-by-step plans to reduce avoidance. Another focuses on mood regulation and behavior change, helping people notice patterns, test new behaviors, and build routines that reduce depressive symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try methods that fit your needs. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted over time based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this practice. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation from wherever you are. Phone sessions can be easier when video isn’t possible or bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, quick skill coaching, or a way to stay connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care across different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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