About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Shartle is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks plain language and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her work includes support for addiction, grief, depression, and the strain that comes with major life changes.
Elizabeth aims to make sessions feel collaborative rather than one-sided. She helps clients improve communication, handle relationship strain, and build better coping habits.
Background and approach
Many people come to her for help with self-esteem, career stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue. Her sessions draw on evidence-based methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She also uses client-centered and solution-focused ideas to tailor each meeting to the person in front of her.
This blend keeps work concrete and focused on what a client wants to change. Elizabeth commonly supports adults navigating transitions from young adulthood into midlife, and people facing parenting challenges, family conflict, or caregiving stress. She offers straightforward tools for anger, boundary setting, and handling family of origin issues.
Clients can expect a direct but empathetic style that balances problem-solving with emotional support. Her Ohio-based practice emphasizes steady progress and realistic steps. If someone is looking for clear strategies for anxiety and life stress, she helps map a path forward.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Elizabeth draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take steps aligned with their values. It can be useful for ongoing anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior and uses specific exercises to change unhelpful reactions, which helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Elizabeth treats therapy as a collaboration and will help explore which techniques fit a client’s goals and preferences. She adjusts methods as work progresses so sessions stay relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work in real time and use face-to-face interaction for skill practice. Phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging provide a shorter check-in option and let clients send reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep momentum and apply new strategies to everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, California
- Languages
- English
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