About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Racicot is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She offers calm, practical guidance so clients can find clearer footing during hard times. Her style is steady and down-to-earth, aimed at day-to-day coping and restoring a sense of control.
She often works with adolescents and young adults and those who want a thoughtful, measured pace in therapy.
Background and approach
Elizabeth helps people build self-esteem, handle transitions, and reduce isolation. She uses straightforward strategies clients can practice between sessions. Her background includes long experience in community and clinical settings in Arizona.
That work shaped her approach to mood concerns, grief, postpartum struggles, and seasonal shifts in mood. She brings a long view to challenges like abandonment, attachment issues, and blended family stress. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, achievable steps.
Conversations may cover communication skills, managing overwhelming feelings, and practical routines for daily life. Elizabeth aims to help each person discover what works best for them. Outside of practice she is active in her community and values family time, creativity, and outdoor activities.
Those interests inform a collaborative, person-centered way of working that treats each person as an individual with their own strengths and limits.
How evidence-based approaches fit into online therapy
Elizabeth draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on teaching practical skills and changing everyday patterns. One approach emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and stress through step-by-step strategies that reduce overwhelming reactions and improve daily functioning. Another approach addresses mood concerns and depression by identifying unhelpful thought patterns and encouraging small behavioral changes to lift energy and motivation.Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. From there she tailors strategies and checks in often to make sure the work fits the client's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different situations. Video is useful for full sessions when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text is handy for brief check-ins or when a shorter message fits a busy day. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people keep continuity with therapy when life gets busy.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, California
- Languages
- English
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