About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with five years of clinical experience and a longer history in social work. She works with people dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and mood concerns. Her background also includes supporting those facing relationship and communication problems, parenting strain, and life transitions.
Elizabeth favors a warm, non-judgmental style. She listens first and helps people name what feels overwhelming. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She aims to make therapy feel collaborative rather than prescriptive. Her practice draws on approaches that help people understand patterns from past relationships and learn skills for the present. Elizabeth uses tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches to spot unhelpful thoughts and build new coping habits.
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. People often come to her for panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, bipolar and mood concerns, or problems with intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports those dealing with grief, workplace stress, seasonal mood changes, and parenting challenges.
Elizabeth has experience assisting veterans and people facing midlife shifts. In sessions she mixes guided conversation with simple skill-building. She encourages small experiments that can reduce anxiety and improve communication.
Her aim is to help people feel steadier and more in control of daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and teaches ways to build safer connections. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. It uses clear exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and develop different ways of responding to anxiety and mood symptoms.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods feel most useful for the problems at hand.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited transportation. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share between sessions, send quick updates, or practice skills in the moment. These options let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel routines while continuing consistent care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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