About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Thiel is a Wisconsin licensed clinical social worker with six years of experience supporting people facing stress and anxiety. She helps clients who are coping with addictions, relationship concerns, low self-esteem, and depression. Elizabeth meets people where they are and focuses on small steps that lead to real change.
She approaches care with a plainspoken, supportive style. She treats the person as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to increase motivation, boost confidence, and ease panic or social fears one step at a time. Her work often centers on practical skills. That can mean learning ways to manage panic attacks, practicing tools to reduce social anxiety, or building routines that lower daily stress.
She also supports people dealing with loneliness and the process of forgiveness, helping them find clearer next steps. Elizabeth adapts conversations to each person's needs. Some sessions focus on problem-solving and strategies.
Others focus on understanding feelings and improving self-love and self-worth. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. To begin, a simple matching questionnaire is completed and a session is scheduled.
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Approaches that meet you where you are
Elizabeth uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches breathing and grounding tools to manage panic attacks and intense anxiety. These techniques help reduce immediate symptoms and give simple steps to use when panic or worry starts.Another frequent focus is behavior-based strategies that target stress, addictions, and motivation. This involves breaking goals into small actions and building routines that support recovery and improved mood. It also includes exercises to practice social skills and reduce avoidance in social anxiety and phobia.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques that seem useful, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. Clients and the therapist work together to pick tools that fit daily life and personal preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break or low-bandwidth situations, and live chat or text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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