About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Windley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with decades of hands-on experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and respectful, with an emphasis on practical steps that fit each person’s situation.
She uses clear, goal-oriented methods to help people manage worry and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Sessions are tailored to individual needs and paced to match what the person wants to work on.
Background and approach
Elizabeth emphasizes compassion and sensitivity while encouraging small, doable steps toward improvement. Over a long career in Tennessee she has supported people facing addictions, intimacy concerns, eating and body-image struggles, and the effects of isolation and shame. She also has experience addressing hospice and end-of-life issues and working with people in non-monogamous relationships.
That background helps when concerns overlap or feel complicated. Elizabeth often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. She pairs that approach with practical coping skills for everyday stress, grief processing, and routines that support better mood.
The work is collaborative and grounded in real-life tasks. People who prefer direct guidance and clear strategies tend to find her approach useful. She aims to help each person gain tools to face anxiety and other struggles, and to build a steadier, more manageable day-to-day life.
How CBT and online sessions work together
Elizabeth commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence each other and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and coping after loss by focusing on specific, manageable steps to shift thinking and behavior.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and help choose methods that fit your needs. Together you’ll adapt techniques and pacing so the plan feels doable and relevant to your life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversation and use visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when low bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing reflections, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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