About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Stark is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties. She has 25 years of experience in clinical work and brings a calm, encouraging presence to sessions. She uses straightforward talk and practical strategies so clients can make changes that fit their lives.
Sessions focus on clear goals, small steps, and learning skills that reduce worry, improve communication, and strengthen coping during hard times.
Background and approach
Elizabeth aims to make therapy feel collaborative rather than overwhelming. Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Studies from Chapman University and a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from National University. Over her career she has worked in individual and group settings and provided support to people recovering from physical trauma and emotional abuse.
Elizabeth draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. She often helps people with parenting stress, mood disorders, panic attacks, grief, body image concerns, and life transitions. She also supports those facing addiction struggles, ADHD-related challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Therapy with Elizabeth typically focuses on concrete skills and real-life problem solving. She encourages steady progress through collaborative planning, practical exercises, and emotional support. People who want a thoughtful, experienced guide for anxiety, relationship strain, or coping with change may find her approach helpful.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
The practice uses a mix of evidence-based techniques that focus on symptom relief and practical change. Cognitive behavioral approaches help people notice unhelpful thoughts and practice different ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and depression. Motivational approaches support people who want to change behaviors by clarifying values and strengthening motivation to take small, achievable steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what fits best based on goals, current challenges, and personal preference. Plans are adjusted over time so techniques match progress and changing needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain consistency over weeks or months.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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