About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Shields is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) based in Nebraska. She draws on a person-centered, strengths-based style to help people manage stress and anxiety and cope with life changes. Her approach emphasizes a respectful, collaborative relationship and steady, practical support.
She focuses on the whole person rather than a single symptom. Sessions often begin by exploring values, relationships, and personal goals.
Background and approach
That helps shape small, achievable steps toward better coping and day-to-day functioning. Elizabeth uses a mix of approaches, including cognitive behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thought patterns and acceptance-based strategies to build willingness around difficult feelings. She also pays attention to attachment and relationship dynamics when those patterns affect mood and connection with others.
She has four years of clinical experience and often works with people facing burnout, caregiver strain, grief, addictions, relationship challenges, low self-esteem, sleep problems, and mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder. She also supports people navigating identity and intimacy issues and those with ADHD or chronic health challenges. Her style is conversational and practical.
She aims to create a trusting space where clients can speak honestly about the past, present, and future. If someone prefers flexible session formats, she offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Elizabeth frequently uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy online. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood challenges. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on clarifying values and learning to accept difficult feelings while taking steps toward a meaningful life, which can help with stress, burnout, and life transitions.She also draws on attachment-based ideas when relationship patterns affect emotional well-being. That perspective looks at how early and current relationships shape expectations and reactions, and it can be helpful for intimacy, communication, and trust issues. Choosing an approach is a shared process; the therapist will work with each client to match methods to their goals, values, and daily demands.
Online therapy offers practical advantages for people with busy or changing schedules. Video calls allow a near face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into short breaks or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflections between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Iowa
- Languages
- English
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