About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Toporas is a licensed marriage and family therapist with two decades of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or relationship strain. Elizabeth aims to create a warm, direct space where people can talk and make practical changes.
She trained at Indiana University and holds a Master of Science in Education. Elizabeth has worked with foster and blended families, survivors of intimate partner violence, and people living with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder.
Background and approach
Her background includes many years supporting people through major life transitions and workplace strain. Her style is interactive and compassionate, with a touch of humor when it fits. Sessions blend client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral and emotionally-focused strategies.
She also pays attention to how trauma can affect the body and the brain, and she brings that into the work when it helps. Elizabeth tailors conversations and goals to each person's needs and timeline. She focuses on practical tools for managing panic, anxiety, anger, and low self-esteem, while also addressing deeper relationship patterns.
The aim is steady progress you can notice between sessions. People who come to her often want validation for change and clear steps forward. Elizabeth supports clients in finding actionable next steps and building coping skills.
She works from Indiana and provides services in English.
How her approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete tools to reduce panic, depression, or anxious thinking. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, helps people identify and change patterns in close relationships so they can feel safer and more connected.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about current needs, goals, and preferences and then adapt techniques from ACT, CBT, or EFT as appropriate. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helping and what is not.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit everyday life. Video lets people work face to face when that helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, journaling support, or shorter sessions that fit into a busy schedule. These options make it possible to continue work through moves, job changes, or unpredictable weeks while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional healing.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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