About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Stivers is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience based in Maine. She brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. People come to her for help with relationships, parenting challenges, and burnout from caregiving or work-related compassion fatigue.
She uses clear, straightforward methods to teach healthier communication and coping skills.
Background and approach
She helps clients understand how thoughts, feelings, and behavior interact, and she supports them in making changes that fit their daily life. Elizabeth also offers help for people navigating adoption and foster care adjustments, blended family dynamics, and issues connected to autism and Asperger syndrome.
Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology from The University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree in social work from The University of Chicago. She holds the LCSW credential, which is listed as ME LCSW. Her clinical work has been shaped by many settings over the years, including community centers, hospitals, outpatient clinics, and independent practice.
In sessions she focuses on practical tools like thought reframing, emotion-focused strategies, and problem-solving steps. She often combines these with approaches that address deeper emotional patterns and past trauma when needed. The goal is to help clients reduce overwhelming symptoms and build routines that feel manageable.
Elizabeth describes her approach as collaborative and respectful. She works with each person to set clear goals and to choose techniques that match their needs and pace. Sessions aim to leave people feeling heard and with concrete next steps they can use between meetings.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel understood and encourages self-directed change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety and manage mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people identify and work through strong emotions that affect relationships and personal wellbeing.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick coping tips, or when a shorter touchpoint fits into a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping the focus on progress and practical strategies.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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